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With these there mingled new immigrants from the shipyards and factories of the Old Land, all members or ex-members of Trade Unions, Socialists in training and doctrine, familiar with the terminology and jargon of those Socialistic debating schools, the Local Unions of England and Scotland, alert, keen, ready of wit and ready of tongue, rejoicing in wordy, passionate debate, ready for anything, fearing nothing.
So it was with the hunting season for Lightfoot the Deer. There came a day when the law protected all Deer, a day when the hunters could no longer go searching for Lightfoot. Usually there was great rejoicing among the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows when the hunting season ended and they knew that Lightfoot would be in no more danger until the next hunting season.
She has not returned, and now something must be done. But on this day of days no one could be found to attend to anything! Shops were shut, post offices did not work. The city was mad with rejoicing. At luncheon I ate, gulped down my food. Burton's calm reassured me. "You don't think anything has happened, do you Burton?" "No, Sir Nicholas. Her Ladyship is no doubt with her family.
They shouted praise and rejoicing in his ears until he was half-deafened, and they almost tore his clothing from them in their desire to touch, to pat, to assure him of their gratitude and affection, minutes since they'd thirsted for his blood. Two hours after the first ship, a second landed. Dara went wild again. Four hours later still, the third arrived.
Aunt Rose was meeting a lover clandestinely in the woods while Aunt Caroline and Aunt Sophia sat innocently at home, marvelling at Rose's indifference to men, yet rejoicing in her spinsterhood; and Henrietta felt that Rose had wronged her stepsisters almost as much as she had wronged her niece.
From the contemplation of this brilliant banqueting of our enemies let me absorb a fearful mortal venom, whereby I shall bring to an end both our ignominy and their rejoicing!" Friedrich shudders, in spite of himself, at such incarnate malignity as seems represented by that crouching form, those hate-darting eyes.
She put them on, the knights revived at once, thanked her, and went on their way rejoicing, never knowing the difference, for there were so many other heads like them in the world that no one thought anything of it. The knight in whom I'm interested went back to find the pretty face, and learned that the princesses had spun themselves free and all gone and married, but one.
"Yet I do not wish you to think me bold, or or indiscreet. You do not think so, do you?" "That idea has never once occurred to me, Miss McDonald. I am only too glad to be of service." "It is good of you to say that; you see, there was no one else." "Your father?" he suggested. "But that is the very trouble," she insisted, rejoicing that he had thus unconsciously opened the way to her confession.
All these things are causes of rejoicing more than of regret, for they are the very things for which I came into the country, and to which I wish to devote my latest breath...Jabez has offered himself to the Mission, a circumstance which gives me more pleasure than if he had been appointed Chief Judge of the Supreme Court...Your mother has long been confined to her couch, I believe about six months."
And to the end of their lives Frida and Hans remained as brother and sister, each rejoicing in the success of the other in life; and in after years they had many a laugh over the day that Hans began to think that he must call his sister friend, the companion of his childhood, his instructor in much that was good, by the stiff title of Fräulein Frida.
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