The groom was in the
utmost alarm, both on his own account and on mine, but, in spite of this,
so had the sense of the ludicrous in this unhappy
_contretemps_ taken possession of his fancy, that he sang out a long,
loud, and canorous peal of laughter, that might have wakened the Seven
Sleepers.
utmost alarm, both on his own account and on mine, but, in spite of this,
so had the sense of the ludicrous in this unhappy
_contretemps_ taken possession of his fancy, that he sang out a long,
loud, and canorous peal of laughter, that might have wakened the Seven
Sleepers.
De Quincey - Confessions of an Opium Eater
