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We have a Canadian hospital in Paris, for the French, and others are being organised." They turned in at the gate and found themselves in a beautiful quadrangle, set out with grass plots and flowers and cement walks. The building itself, an ancient royal palace, had been enlarged by means of sun-parlours and porches which gave it an air of wonderful cheeriness and brightness.
Her home had expressed itself here, as it had never done anywhere else. There was something in the fair, open, sunshiny roominess and cosey connection of these apartments, hers and her daughters', in harmony with the largeness and cheeriness and clearness in which her love and her wish for them held them always.
His customary cheeriness seemed to have deserted him altogether at this juncture. "I'm not going to suppose anything so unpleasant till I have to," I asserted. "Be off with you, and send that wire to Mary!" I wanted to get rid of him.
They buried him up there, and that night his loss was mourned, not without tears, by many rough soldiers who had loved the man for his cheeriness, and honoured him for the simple faith, which seemed to put a glamour about the mud-stained uniform of a soldier of France.
Mary Brander went about her work very quietly all day, and more than one of the wounded patients remarked the change in her manner. "Mademoiselle is suffering to-day," one of them said to her, as he missed the ring of hopefulness and cheeriness with which she generally spoke to him.
As an open door meant liberty to enter, I lost no time in following the direction of her finger, and presently found myself in a low attic chamber overlooking an acre of roofs. A fire had been lighted in the open grate, and the flickering red beams danced on ceiling and walls with a cheeriness greatly in contrast to the nature of the business which had led me there.
But Ethel could not answer to his cheeriness just yet. "Basil, why are so many humans just mere letters of the alphabet in the general scheme?" She had slid into a sitting posture now, and leaned her head against his arm.
The child Star sang with the birds, and danced with the dancing leaves, all unconscious of what was coming; but the old Captain's steps grew slower and heavier, day by day, and the cheery voice grew feeble, and lost its hearty ring, though never its cheeriness. "I'll set here in the porch, Jewel Bright," he would say, when the child begged him to come for a scramble on the rocks.
The sun rose golden and gathering up its gold threw it forward over the gladness of the Shield. The farmhouse such as the poet had sung of when he could not help singing of American home life looked out from under its winter roof with the cheeriness of a human traveller who laughs at the snow on his hat and shoulders. Smoke poured out of its chimneys, bespeaking brisk fires for festive purposes.
So on Sunday afternoons, or of a bitter cold morning, they had their own little blaze to sit or dress by; and it made the difference of a continual feeling of cheeriness and comfort to them, always possible when not immediately actual; and of a bushel or two of coal, perhaps, in the winter's supply of fuel. "Where were the babies of a Sunday afternoon, and how about the offered tending?"
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