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When in his old age he became blind, he bore this misfortune with his customary lightness of heart; and one day, meeting the veteran Barré, who had also lost his eyesight, he exclaimed, with his unfailing wit, "Well, colonel, in spite of all our differences, I suppose there are no two men in England who would be gladder to see each other than you and I." But while Lord North could jest about his blindness, the memory of his ill-judged subservience to the king was something that he could not laugh away, and among his nearest friends he was sometimes heard to reproach himself bitterly.
Your friend Comte d'Ensiedlen and his governor, have been with me this moment, and delivered me your letter from Berlin, of February the 28th, N. S. I like them both so well that I am glad you did; and still gladder to hear what they say of you. Go on, and continue to deserve the praises of those who deserve praises themselves. Adieu.
"I'm a Virginian myself," said Grandma Padgett, warming, "though Ohio's been my State for many years." "Well, now," exclaimed the mover, "if you want to light right down, we'll be all the gladder for that. I saw you stoppin' here uncertain; and there's the ford over Little Miami ahead of you. I thought you'd not like to try it in the dark."
The original's enough and to spare," cut in his lordship. He turned to Griffith with unaffected cordiality. "Glad to meet one of Tom's other friends, Mr. Griffith." "The only other," added Blake. "Then I'm still gladder!" said Lord James, gripping the bony hand of Griffith. "Don't let Tom chaff you. My name's just Scarbridge James Scarbridge." "Owh, me lud!
"No, dear, I kept that for a surprise. And are you really glad to see me, Austin?" "Really glad! Is there any one in the world could make me gladder?" "I am so happy to hear that. I was almost afraid you had half forgotten me. Your letters were so few, and so short."
Kirsty was glad for her sake, and gladder still that Francie Gordon had done her no irreparable injury seemed not even to have left his simulacrum in her memory and imagination. As her strength returned, she regained the childish merriment which had always drawn Kirsty, and the more strongly that she was not herself light-hearted.
The festivals, and hilarities, and family gatherings of Christmas times on earth, will give way to the larger reunions, and the brighter lights, and the gladder scenes, and the sweeter garlands, and the richer feastings of the great holiday of Heaven.
"Thank you so much," said Flamby, faint traces of mist disturbing her sight. "Not at all, dear. I'm glad. The longer you stay the gladder I shall be. What an absurd word gladder. There is something wrong about it, surely, Don?" "More glad would perhaps be preferable, Aunt." Mrs. Chumley immediately succumbed to silent merriment for a time. "How absurd!" she said presently. "Gladder!
'Jerrie, he said, slowly and thickly, for something choked his speech, 'I can't tell you now all I feel, only I am glad for you and Arthur, but gladder for myself. What did he mean? Jerrie wondered; while Maude's eyes sought his questioningly, and his wife said, sharply: 'You are talking like a lunatic! Do you propose to give up so easily to a girl's bare word!
For there is a Devil dwells in man, as well as a Divinity; and too often the bow is but pocketed by the former. "The gladder am I, on the other hand, to do reverence to those Shells and outer Husks of the Body, wherein no devilish passion any longer lodges, but only the pure emblem and effigies of Man: I mean, to Empty, or even to Cast Clothes.
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