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Back and forth swung the oscillation between fugitive desire and outward possession between the craving of emptiness and the satiety of fulfilment and yet where was the happiness of those who lived for happiness alone? Where was even the mere animal contentment? "Is it only when one says to Fate 'take this and this as well take everything and leave me nothing.
Yet, my Lord! you must suffer me a little to complain of you! that you too soon withdraw from us a contentment, of which we expected the continuance, because you gave it us so early.
As the wisdom, strength, and beneficence of our free institutions are unfolded, every day adds fresh motives to contentment and fresh incentives to patriotism. Our devout and sincere acknowledgments are due to the gracious Giver of All Good for the numberless blessings which our beloved country enjoys.
One finds, like Christian in Doubting Castle, the key which has lain in one's bosom all the time the key of Promise; and when one has finished the recital, one is lost in bewilderment that one ever was in any doubt at all. A year has passed since that date, and I have had the happiness of seeing health and contentment stream back into the man's face.
As for a military hospital, while war lays waste the world, there is no place where there is more peace and contentment. Hospital, for example, is the happiest place to spend Christmas. About a week before the day there are mysterious whispers in the corners, and furtive writing in a notebook, and the clinking of coppers.
Her angel sister had loved the youth, the old Scotch missionary little short of adored him. Why, then, this shocked amazement of her relatives, that she should wish to wed the finest gentleman she had ever met, the man whose love and kindness had made her erstwhile blackened and cruel world a paradise of sunshine and contentment?
Her hand still rested in the arm of her manager, and a feeling of safety and contentment gradually stole into her heart, often sore for her own loneliness, as well as over the woes of others. The marshal unlocked the door of Nate's narrow cell and held his lantern aloft with a cheery, "Hello! Tierney.
She gurgled to herself in much contentment. Aunt Soph had kissed her, or, at least, submitted to be kissed; Elma was engaged in playing the part of Eve in flounced blue muslin, to an Adam in a flannel suit, in a particularly well-mown Garden of Eden.
Then, without dying out, it was reinforced by another sound, rhythmical, abrupt, twanging, filling the water and air with a slow measure on four notes. The water swirled beside the canoe, and a face appeared a monstrous, complacent face, such as Böcklin would love a face inhuman in possessing the quality of supreme contentment.
This happiness in helping others was the secret of Sarah Grimké's unvarying contentment, and there was always some one needing the help she was so ready to give, some one whose trials made her feel, she says, ashamed to think of her own.
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