"' 'He used at one time to go occasionally to the green room of Drury-lane Theatre[20], where he was much regarded by the players, and was very easy and facetious with them.

3. I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

This feast was very joyous and merry, and except that the parson would be facetious over his bottle, nothing unseemingly or immodest was said.

" "You are pleased to be facetious at my expense," said I. "Well, the expense was not a very heavy one," he retorted.

That same unlucky trick of joking is taken to indicate that we don't care much about the scenery; for who, with a really susceptible soul, could be facetious under the cliffs of Jungfrau or the ghastly precipices of the Matterhorn?