I continued to chuckle to myself about it for some time, and then it was suddenly forced in upon me that really I had got very little to laugh at when I came to think of it.
Je ne pus m’empecher de rire, tant il avait l’air ridicule, et je continuai de glousser jusqu’au moment ou je compris soudain que je n’avais guere de raison de me réjouir.