1 So they laughed; but respected.
2 Everyone was clapping and laughing.
3 She was mocking him as usual, laughing.
4 She laughed, tapping him lightly on the knee.
5 But the audience laughed so loud that it did not matter.
6 He threw himself back in his chair and laughed, like a horse whinnying.
7 The workers were laughing too, as if old Swithin had left a wake of laughter behind her.
8 Mrs. Neale laughed; Mrs. Manresa laughed; Giles too smiled, and looked down at his shoes.
9 What a cackle, what a rattle, what a yaffle--as they call the woodpecker, the laughing bird that flits from tree to tree.
10 And then a breeze blew and all the muslin blinds fluttered out, as if some majestic goddess, rising from her throne among her peers, had tossed her amber-coloured raiment, and the other gods, seeing her rise and go, laughed, and their laughter floated her on.
11 There he stood their representative spokesman; their symbol; themselves; a butt, a clod, laughed at by looking-glasses; ignored by the cows, condemned by the clouds which continued their majestic rearrangement of the celestial landscape; an irrelevant forked stake in the flow and majesty of the summer silent world.
12 Then the great lady in the bath chair, the lady whose marriage with the local peer had obliterated in his trashy title a name that had been a name when there were brambles and briars where the Church now stood--so indigenous was she that even her body, crippled by arthritis, resembled an uncouth, nocturnal animal, now nearly extinct--clapped and laughed loud--the sudden laughter of a startled jay.