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Then I laughed, and laid down on the floor to laugh easier. It seemed funny to me. By nature and geniality I am a hearty laugher, and I went the limit. When I came to, Mame was sitting with her back to me, all contaminated with dignity. "'Don't be angry, Mame, I says, 'for I couldn't help it. It's the funny way you've done up your hair. If you could only see it!
They laughed and laughed, the woman wiping her tear-filled eyes. Finally, when she could stop long enough to talk, she said: "Did you ever hear of anything so funny in all your life a hot brick or a hot flatiron" a peal of laugher "at my feet another one at the small of my back Oh, I shall die, I shall surely die!" And she went off into another paroxysm of laughter.
"What I have to do, yes." "But what you have to feel?" "In truth I am not even there a consistent laugher." "Nor I, or we shouldn't talk so much about it. Look at Varvilliers. Does he laugh on a theory?" "He's coming to Artenberg to-day. There at least he'll laugh without any effort. Are you staying here long?" "No, sire. One scene of despair, and I depart." "I should like to see you oftener."
'This way, called Cousinenry. 'Follow me. They settled down in a group among Madame Jequier's lilacs. 'We'll begin with the Pension des Glycines. Jinny is already busy with La Citadelle. They perched among the opening blossoms. Overhead flashed by the Sweep, the Dustman, and the Laugher, bound for distant ports, perhaps as far as England.
Such then was Thiodolf, and ever was he the chosen leader of the Wolfings and often the War-duke of the whole Folk. By his side stood the other chosen leader, whose name was Heriulf; a man well stricken in years, but very mighty and valiant; wise in war and well renowned; of few words save in battle, and therein a singer of songs, a laugher, a joyous man, a merry companion.
For there's another point, Hilary: as long as you were every night a 'ladies' man' and every day a laugher at death you could take those boys through hell-fire at any call; but if they once get the notion which you came mighty near giving them yesterday that you hold their lives cheap merely because you're tired of your own, they'll soon make you wish you'd never set eyes on a certain friend of ours, worse than you or they or I have ever wished it yet."
They were the first words he had uttered. The voice was so different from her brother's that she was terrified; her limbs quivered. In another instant the speaker had struck a wax vesta, and holding it erect in his fingers he looked her in the face. 'Hee-hee-hee! The laugher was her husband the viscount.
Our poor laugher having recovered his composure, Casanova, who had remained very serious, invited me to dinner for the next day with my young friend Paul Gennaro, who had already become my alter ego. When we called at his house, my worthy cousin showed me his family tree, beginning with a Don Francisco, brother of Don Juan.
She had had children, assorted colors had one with her now, the black boy that brought the basil to Joseph; the others were here and there, some in the Grandissime households or field-gangs, some elsewhere within occasional sight, some dead, some not accounted for. Husbands like the Samaritan woman's. We know she was a constant singer and laugher.
Upon the whole," added he, "I rather think I prefer the honest parson's good humor to his patron's good breeding; I have a great regard for a hearty laugher." He went on to speak of the great influx of English travellers which of late years had inundated Scotland; and doubted whether they had not injured the old-fashioned Scottish character.
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