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Still, however much or frequently Granny's thoughts might at any time be distracted from their main channel, they invariably returned thereto with the cheerful assurance that "he would soon come now." "You're ill, my boy," said Mrs Martin, after the first greetings were over. "Right you are, mother," said the worn-out man, sitting down with a weary sigh.
The girl was very much grieved at her failure to find her mistress, but being of a good disposition soon became contented with her lot. Accordingly, when Dr. Humphries purchased her, she followed him home with a cheerful step. On entering his house the doctor presented the negro to Emma. "Here, Emma," he observed, "is a girl I have bought for you to-day."
'We must get this idea out of her head, I returned cheerfully, for I was obstinately bent on having my own way about the flowers. Kitty was sewing on a little stool by the window; the curtains were undrawn, so that the room was tolerably light, and might have been cheerful, only an ugly wire blind shut out all view of the little garden.
But some time after, when Prince Dolor had eaten his supper somewhat drearily, except for the thought that he could not possibly sup off lark pie now and gone quietly to bed, the old familiar little bed, where he was accustomed to sleep, or lie awake contentedly thinking suddenly he heard outside the window a little faint carol faint but cheerful cheerful even though it was the middle of the night.
Cupp always had a bright fire glowing in her tiny grate when she came in, and when her lamp was lighted under its home-made shade of crimson Japanese paper, its cheerful air, combining itself with the singing of her little, fat, black kettle on the hob, seemed absolute luxury to a tired, damp woman. Mrs. Cupp and Jane Cupp were very kind and attentive to her.
Receipts and expenditures balanced each other. The general expense account had eaten up everything, and, furthermore, Fromont Jeune was indebted to the firm in a large sum. You should have seen old Planus's air of consternation when, on the 31st of December, he went up to Georges's office to make report of his labors. Georges took a very cheerful view of the matter.
Keraunus was certainly not one of the most cheerful of men, but on the morning when Sabina came to the palace and the gate-keeper was driven from his home, he had worn the aspect of a thoroughly-contented man. Since visiting Selene the day before he had given himself no farther concern about her.
A century or so ago autumn had the sharpness of coming winter in the early morning and after sundown. There was a cheerful wood fire on the hearth, and its blaze lighted the room sufficiently, as the red light of the sunset poured through a large double window. The house had a wide hall through the center that was really the keeping-room.
I have thought it right to speak of certain temptations I have observed to which beginners are liable some of them I have had myself and to give some advice about certain things which to me seem necessary. In the beginning, then, we should strive to be cheerful and unconstrained; for there are people who think it is all over with devotion if they relax themselves ever so little.
We talked while he ate; he laughed readily and was in a cheerful mood, and since his face was beardless and hard, it looked like a laughing iron mask. But he was sensible and pleasant. There was only one thing: I had been silent for so long that I talked now perhaps too readily; and if it happened that both this boy Solem and I spoke at once, he would stop immediately to let me have my say.
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