amusing

“Come, come, this is very droll—very amusing—I allow; but, as I am very hungry, pray allow me to eat.

I never was in a law-court; I am told it is so very amusing!”

“Amusing, certainly,” replied the young man, “inasmuch as, instead of shedding tears as at the fictitious tale of woe produced at a theatre, you behold in a law-court a case of real and genuine distress—a drama of life.

Is it not amusing to see them both on the same table?”