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In this way the news was spread to the stragglers off the road, when they, too, turned their faces to the front and marched toward the enemy, changing in a moment from the depths of depression, to the extreme of enthusiasm.
"Surest thing you know!" ejaculated Larry, and Tim acquiesced with equal enthusiasm. They parted for the night with a feeling on both sides of warm liking and esteem and a looking forward to a most enjoyable time on the following day.
"It strikes me we shall require all our jollity and enthusiasm to keep up our spirits, if we don't reach the diggings to-morrow," said Ned Sinton, as he busied himself in polishing the blade of a superb hunting-knife, which had been presented to him by a few college friends at parting; "you all know that our funds are exhausted, and it's awkward to arrive at a ranche without a dollar to pay for a meal still more awkward to be compelled to encamp beside a ranche and unpack our own provisions, especially if it should chance to be a wet night.
The singers rehearsed their parts con amore, and displayed so much intelligence and enthusiasm that Bellini was quite delighted. The first performance just escaped being a failure in spite of the anxious efforts of the singers. Donzelli's suave and charming execution, even "Casta Diva," delivered by Pasta in her most magnificent style, failed to move the cold audience.
I moved up close, and never lost a strain. When she got through, I asked her to play it again. She did it with a pleased alacrity and a heightened enthusiasm. She made it ALL discords, this time. She got an amount of anguish into the cries of the wounded that shed a new light on human suffering. She was on the war-path all the evening.
He wished, besides, that Harry should seem to partake of the honor and gratitude which their enthusiasm would prompt them to pay to himself. The whole town was one scene of life, bustle, and enjoyment.
His costume even was not more remarkable than that of Roustan, to which we were accustomed; and as to his bows, they were hardly lower than those of the ordinary courtiers of the First Consul. At Paris, it is said, the enthusiasm lasted longer "It is so odd to be a Turk!" A few ladies had the honor of seeing the bearded ambassador eat.
This lad doesn't look as if he had ever been in a strong sun, and his slender loose-jointed legs and arms do not give the impression of an open-air life spent mostly in the saddle. "You have a sheep-farm? Hard life, isn't it?" "Best life in the world," he answers with enthusiasm. "Always on horseback, miles of open country, not shut in by beastly houses."
"Once is enough," replied the Shaggy Man, laughing at his friend's enthusiasm. "Then tell me where you found her, and Dear me, what a queer cat! What are you made of gelatine?" "Pure glass," answered the cat, proud to have attracted the Scarecrow's attention. "I am much more beautiful than the Patchwork Girl.
He WAS a little embittered by his troubles, no doubt; what can you expect if you clap men in prison for the expression of their honest political convictions? but Ernest tried to keep his eye steadily rather on the future than on the past; and with greater ease and unwonted comforts the old man's cheerfulness as well as his enthusiasm gradually returned.
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