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I have a kind of dread, rather than hatred, of persons with a large excess of vitality; great feeders, great laughers, great story-tellers, who come sweeping over their company with a huge tidal wave of animal spirits and boisterous merriment.
In addition to being the best wrestler in the parish you are also its most able and sonorous laugher." "Yes, Sarah and I have got the laughing habit. I guess we need a touch of misery to hold us down. But you will have other laughers. The seed has been planted here and the soil is favorable." Samson knew many funny stories and could tell them well. His heart was as merry as The Fisher's Hornpipe.
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 had a regular system of what he called "unwinding," thus relieving the great strain put upon him. "A man," says Dr. Johnson, "should spend part of his time with the laughers." Humor was Lincoln's life-preserver, as it has been of thousands of others. "If it were not for this," he used to say, "I should die." His jests and quaint stories lighted the gloom of dark hours of national peril.
But you will allow you might have been near one without his seeing you." A sort of titter ran through the Court at the simplicity of the larger Sir Geoffrey's testimony, which the dwarf endeavoured to control, by standing on his tiptoes, and looking fiercely around, as if to admonish the laughers that they indulged their mirth at their own peril.
A few contemptuous laughs came from the nearest ranks. "Do you think," said Corentin, sharply, "that the only way to serve France is with bayonets?" Then he turned his back to the laughers, and asked a woman beside him if she knew the object of the expedition. "Hey! my good man, the Chouans are at Florigny. They say there are more than three thousand, and they are coming to take Fougeres."
Hawthorne caught sight of the figure in closed coat, tall hat, and white silk muffler as soon as it entered the house, for the group of laughers stood near the ball-room door, and this was only separated from the inner house door by the wide hall. Without waiting for the end of the comic story Mrs.
Believe me, she'd fit any chorus." "Why don't you ask Bergman?" Mr. Regan shook his hairless head. "He's dippy on 'types. This show's full of 'em: real blondes, real brunettes, bold and dashin' ones, tall and statelies, blushers, shrinkers, laughers, and sadlings. He won't stand for make-up; he wants 'em with the dew on. They've got to look natural for Bergman. That's some of 'em now."
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary. How often has it been said that the fuller the theatre, the more uncontrolled the laughter of the audience!
Oho, Baronet! it will be a hot skirmish. He who has been under fire from a dozen such old soldiers needs a week or two to recover from the experience. A pleasing fate indeed, to play the fox to such hounds! We'll find some one to be the central figure this evening. You must be among the laughers, and then you can tell us something of the cock-fights and the boxing-bouts in England.
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