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Updated: June 8, 2025
One thing at any rate is left to me, as you know my keen eyes; and they did not fail me when you two looked at each other as the starling cried, 'My strength! Ay, the bird is in the right when he bewails what was once so great and is now a mere laughing-stock.
The Congress of Vienna reassembled, and the readjustment of the map of Europe began over again. Prussia is given back what had been taken away from her. A German confederation was formed in 1815 to resist encroachments, but with no definite political idea, and its diet, to which Prussia, Austria, and the other smaller states sent representatives, became the laughing-stock of Europe.
"Would they could have foretold that my caravan would have been cut up by the Shinwaris almost within shadow of the Pass!" grunted the Eusufzai agent of a Rajputana trading-house whose goods had been feloniously diverted into the hands of other robbers just across the Border, and whose misfortunes were the laughing-stock of the bazar. "Ohe, priest, whence come you and whither do you go?"
I thought for one second before I replied, my mind, with the practised rapidity of an old campaigner, took in all the pros and cons of the case; I saw at a glance, it were better to brave the anger of the Colonel, come in what shape it might, than be the laughing-stock of the mess for life, and with a face of the greatest gravity and self-possession, said, "Well, adjutant, the Colonel is right.
"I don't believe you, sirrah," said Morrice, severely. "You have been frightened by a shadow. Come, show me the place. Don't make yourself a laughing-stock for your fellows." The sentinel turned and led the way to the top of the wall. He pointed down. "There; do you see?" he asked.
We shall be the laughing-stock of every village we pass through." "Och, shure now, Mr. S , who'd think of looking at an owld crathur like me! It's only yersel' that would notice the like." "All the world, everybody would look at you, Jenny. I believe that you put on those hats to draw the attention of all the young fellows that we shall happen to meet on the road. Ha, Jenny!"
"I'll get my gun and follow him if you say so, and then I'll find Burr Gordon," he said, turning a furious face to his sister. "Would you make me a laughing-stock to the whole town?" said she. "Rake down the fire; it's time to go to bed." She looked as proudly at her brother as she had done at Lot. The resemblance between the two faces faded a little as they confronted each other.
Best that you should do it," he added in a low voice, taking up a flask of wine, "and save our comrade from at once making himself a laughing-stock."
Not that I would not do much for her sake. I almost think that I would do it entirely for her sake, if there were no other reason. But to shame myself by taking that which belongs to another, as though it were my own property! To live a coward in mine own esteem! Though I may be the laughing-stock and the butt of all those around me, I would still be a man to myself.
It was as if the frosted windows had gradually cleared and let in the light of the stars. Hugo Ennis had made a laughing-stock of her. He didn't like carrots, forsooth! She was only too conscious of the failure of her efforts to attract him. But he had noticed them and commented on them to others, evidently. It was enough to make one wild!
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