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An unreal lot, with not the ghost of a Man between them; what should the one Great Man of the age find in them to disturb the least ofhis dreams? Came, however, the Ides of March in B.C. 44; and the laugh once more was with Karma, the one great final laugher of the world.
This time, no peal of laugher followed to destroy the impression he had produced upon Unorna. She let her hand rest in his a few seconds, and then gently withdrew it. "I must be going," she said. "So soon?" exclaimed Keyork regretfully. "There were many things I had wished to say to you to-day, but if you have no time " "I can spare a few minutes," answered Unorna, pausing. "What is it?"
Old Man Bob Crawford used to say he wouldn't 'a' took five hundred dollars for that babtizin'. Old Man Bob was the biggest laugher in the country; you could hear him for pretty near half a mile when he got in a laughin' way; and he used to say that whenever he felt like havin' a good laugh, all he had to do was to think of Amos and how he looked with Brother Gyardner leadin' him into the water, and the Babtists a-singin' over him.
As to the evil spirits, I've heard them myself mutter, mutter, squeak, squeak, squeak! Ugh! it is awful, sir awful!" And the mate shuddered as he spoke. Now, Staysail was always a good laugher, but at this tale he fairly yelled with laughter until everything jingled in the cabin, and the tears ran down his cheeks. The mate never moved a muscle. "That awful fore-cabin, sir!" he said.
He said, 'A man should pass a part of his time with the laughers, by which means any thing ridiculous or particular about him might be presented to his view, and corrected. I observed, he must have been a bold laugher who would have ventured to tell Dr. Johnson of any of his particularities .
He told them all his visit to the Manor House, the sprites he found there still alive and waiting as he had made them in his boyhood, their songs and characters, the Dustman, Sweep, and Lamplighter, the Laugher, and the Woman of the Haystack, the blue-eyed Guard 'But now her eyes are brown, aren't they? Monkey asked, peering very close into his face.
He broke into wild, unearthly, choking laughter, his figure swaying to and fro like a pine in a storm. The laughter, an indescribable and most dreadful sound, became low, choked, a mere rattle in the throat, died into silence, and the laugher crashed to the ground like a pine for which the storm has been too much.
He was a hearty laugher, a hard drinker, a common and peculiar failing of the age, a great respecter of the law, as was meet in one so situated, and a bachelor of sixty-eight, a time of life that, by referring his education to a period more remote by half a century, than that in which the incidents of our legend took place, was not at all in favor of any very romantic predilection in behalf of the rest of the human race.
When this great palace is at last completed, he will write the science of it in "L'Essai sur les Forces Humaines"; and on the base, he, a child and a laugher, will trace the immense arabesque of the "Contes Drolatiques," those Rabelaisian stories in old French tracing the progress of the language, which he often declared would be his principal claim to fame.
Then the elder with a little laugh shook her hair back from her shoulders, stooped quickly forward, and kissed her. Isoult sat up. "Oh, who are you?" she wondered. "I am Belvisee," said the kissing girl. "I am Mellifont," said the laugher. "Do you live here?" "Yes." "Is this Thornyhold?" "Thornyhold Brush is very near." "Will you take me? I am to wait there." "Come, sister."
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