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Such glances always make us wiser. This extensive beach affords room for another pleasant pastime. With your staff you may write verses love-verses, if they please you best and consecrate them with a woman's name.
For other pastime, they quarrel among themselves, comrade with comrade, and perhaps shake paralytic fists in furrowed faces.
"Rustic girls in hoods Go gleaning through the woods." Two days after this, we said, my dear mate and I, we shall have a holiday, and from sunrise till sunset, with our laps full of ripe nuts and orchard fruits, we shall make pleasant pastime. Rosalie, for so I may call her, was older than I, with a face of beauty and a spirit that never flagged.
Kite flying is a favorite pastime; the size, shape, and curious decorations are astonishing. They have fights with their kites up in the air, and there is just as much excitement over these kite games as we ever have over foot-ball. They go into paroxysms of joy when the favorite wins. There are singing kites and signal kites and a hundred other kinds.
And the dead flies, who will count them! The climax of infamy is reached when this sort of a thing is made, not a pastime, but a business, when virtue is put on the market with its fixed value attached and bartered for a price. There is no outrage on human feeling greater than this.
"The hunt fatigues me. It is a rude sport." "Seigneur King, would you prefer fishing?" "Fishing tires me; it is a stupid pastime." "Seigneur King, if you call your flute and lute-players, you might enjoy a dance." "Music racks my head, and I cannot bear dancing. Let's try something else." "Seigneur King, shall your chaplain read to you out of some fine work?" "I hate reading.
Diogenes, said Pantagruel, one day for pastime went to see some archers that shot at butts, one of whom was so unskilful, that when it was his turn to shoot all the bystanders went aside, lest he should mistake them for the mark.
As Casanova drew near, Teresina greeted him, not with the look of lascivious understanding which he had involuntarily expected, but with a frank smile of childlike confidence, as if what had passed between them only a few hours before had been nothing more than some trivial pastime. Olivo's face lighted up in friendly fashion, and Amalia nodded a cordial greeting.
A sound philosopher once said: "He that thinks any innocent pastime foolish has either to grow wiser, or is past the ability to do so"; and I have always counted it an impudent fiction that playfulness is inconsistent with greatness. Many men and women have died of Dignity, but the disease which sent them to the tomb was not contracted from Charles Dickens.
Beloved wife! stern duty calls to arms Go, fetch my lance! and cease those vain alarms! SCENE V. A neighboring forest. Night. An old ruined castle in the centre of the scene. The band of ROBBERS encamped on the ground. The ROBBERS singing. To rob, to kill, to wench, to fight, Our pastime is, and daily sport; The gibbet claims us morn and night, So let's be jolly, time is short.
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