did so, he gazed into the wardrobe-glass, in which he could just see himself from his pillow. A smile began to flicker about his curly moustache; his blue eyes lit up with merriment. The
h laughter. "Addie, are you up?.
the two rooms ope
and straw hats, gloves and a stick in their hands ... and the rest ... the rest was stark naked. The ladies wore lovely blouses, magnificent hats, parasols ... and that was all!... And there was nothing in it, Addie, really there was nothing in it; it was all quite natural, quite proper, quite fashiona
ole bed shook, the sheets rose and fell; he was red in the face, as if on the verge of chok
it ... you never ... you never saw
ne peculiarity, that he could not laugh outright, but, shaken with internal merriment, would laugh in his stomach without uttering a sound; and he now sat on the edge of his father's bed, rocking with silent laughter as the bed rocked under him. He tried not to look at hi
ou as funny?" asked Van der Welcke, hea
ame still merrier at the sight of his poor boy's silent throes, his noiseless stomach-laugh, until his own
ttle relieved by his internal paroxysms, the
despair that he could no
r," said Van der Welcke, "
s very sever
o! That'll never do.... i
tent upon Van der Welcke's easily tickled nerves that
passage, knocking at all the do
up, Maste
Addie. "Wai
t to t
t is
from the mistres
er
legram, shut t
?" asked Va
, from Paris: 'J
elcke gre
ushing abroad like that?... One'd think we were wel
that mevrouw was out of town
ght.... Can you meet
ix.... Then we'll have din
I think I'd better
her, don't
crossly, "don't bother me.
r Mamma peacefully and we all have dinner together, then things'll come right of themselves
... Ru
bout! And you just come home to dinn
don't look out, you'll b
n't mind me, st
're offended
ome, of course; but, if you pr
ng out his hands with a comical gesture of resign
k you. But I must be
and you'd better f
shed, shaking with his painful stomach-laugh, whil
ugh!" thou