He was perfectly smiling and good-humoured: "Voyons, voyons, mes petites, ce n'est pas cela,"but saw everything.

As a brother in good standing, one could hardly do less than humour her gracefully; so Lanyard trotted up to the companion ladder, and Liane, resting a hand of sisterly affection upon his arm, besought him to make clear to her feminine stupidity Swain's hopelessly technical explanation of the compass and binnacle.

The effect, when compared with the plans of intonation now so universal, is very singular; and it sometimes sounds dull and monotonouslike a long, low, rumbling of irregular voices, as if there were some quaint, oddly-humoured contention going on in every pew.

He was a portly, good-humoured, ruddy-cheeked man, but De Catinat saw with apprehension that the friar walked by his side as he advanced along the deck, and exchanged a few whispered remarks with him.

The mob were quiet, civil, and remarkably good-humoured, making allowance for the national gruffness; there was no riot.

Among the women there was no awkwardness or inharmony; they had all suffered; and the two wives tactfully humoured the whims of the insane woman.

He could do his day's work in the early hours, and then tramp about all day, chattering, farming, planting, entertainingendlessly good-humoured.

" No doubt the story-telling habit owes much to the fact that ordinary people, quite unconsciously, rate humour very low: I mean, they underestimate the difficulty of "making humour."