Perhaps it is that no conventional restraint can keep down their laughter when you do or say anything ridiculous.
Hartsook's first day was hurried and unsatisfactory.

He was not of himself, and consequently not master of anybody else.

When evening came, there were symptoms of insubordination through the whole school.

Poor Ralph was sick at heart.

He felt that if there had ever been the shadow of an alliance between himself and Bud, it was all "off" now.