There is a tomb at some place in France, I think at Carcassonne, on which
there is some sculpture representing the friends and relations of the
deceased in paroxysms of grief with their cheeks all cracked, and crying
like Gaudenzio’s angels on the Sacro Monte at Varallo-Sesia. Round the
corner, however, just out of sight till one searches, there is a man
holding both his sides and splitting with laughter. In some parts of the
_Odyssey_, especially about Ulysses and Penelope, I fancy that laughing
man as being round the corner. [Oct. 1891.]