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It really seemed as if the old gray walls retained some of the spirit of those earlier days, so gentle, so mirth-inspiring was the sunshine that warmed them. "I'm so glad we came," said Mary, they had both said it before, as the sunny peace penetrated their very souls.

A mirth-inspiring bowl. A full belly, a heavy purse, and a light heart. A bottle at night and business in the morning. Beauty, wit, and wine. Clean glasses and old corks. Wine: may it be our spur as we ride over the bad roads of life While we enjoy ourselves over the bottle, may we never drive prudence out of the room. Wine for there's no medicine like it.

I always hear," he added, chuckling, in that curious, mirth-inspiring way so peculiar to the blacks, "dat de black snake know how to charm best, but all sign fail in dry wedder, and de pan flash in de powder dis time." Holden paid not the least regard to the information.

"I have given him my parol, that he shall have safe conduct!" I laughed, bade Nighthawk good-bye, and left him smiling as I had found him. In ten minutes I was again on the Brock road, riding on through the darkness, between the impenetrable thickets. My reflections were by no means gay. The scenes at the lonely house had not been cheerful and mirth-inspiring.

Ludolph lighted a cigar and sat down to the evening paper, while his daughter evoked from the piano true after-dinner music light, brilliant, mirth-inspiring. Then both adjourned to their private billiard-room. The scene of our story now changes from Mr. Ludolph's luxurious apartments in one of the most fashionable hotels in the city to a forlorn attic in De Koven Street.

It was the spontaneous laugh of youth, vibrant, compelling, mirth-inspiring. "Say, miss, if there's one thing I ain't tackled yet, it's being an officer," he chuckled as he finished his repast. She smiled vaguely, studying him under her long, dark lashes. The boy came into the room, holding his hands behind him, and stood with his sturdy legs braced apart, staring at Rathburn. "There he is now!"

In a moment the tent, the wooded knoll, the whole vicinity was ringing with the uproarious notes of the mirth-inspiring banjo; and Sweeney was chanting, as only that great master could chant, the mighty epic of the sabreurs of Stuart: "If you want to have a good time Jine the cavalry, Bully Boys, hey!"

In truth, this modern imitation of the Greek festivals has fallen far short of those animating, mirth-inspiring scenes, so ably described by the learned author of Anacharsis, where, to use his own words, "every heart, eagerly bent on pleasure, endeavoured to expand itself in a thousand different ways, and communicated to others the impression which rendered it happy."

Laura Pendennis believes its tunes to be the sweetest, the most interesting, the most mirth-inspiring, the most pitiful and pathetic, that ever baby uttered; which opinions, of course, are backed by Mrs. Hokey, the confidential nurse. Laura's husband is not so rapturous; but, let us trust, behaves in a way becoming a man and a father.

The brewers and distillers who put the mirth-inspiring beverages into the market receive more consideration, and a great deal more money, than an average European prince; and yet the poor dry-rotted unfortunate whose decadence we are tracing is like a leper in the scattering effects which he produces during his shaky promenade.