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And the others also had done well, all except "Mademoiselle D.," the girl at the far end; she had not made a single sale. A slight little thing, pale and somewhat anxious-looking; no wonder that customers had passed her by. Then she looked up, and we both caught our breath. What eyes! Eyes of the purest, serenest gray gray of that rare quality that holds no tint of either green or blue.
His loves, his innocent dissipations, his grand passions, his rapier duels, would fill the volumes of a Le Sage or a Cervantes. In the gay circles of New Orleans he floats with lambent wings and irresistible fine eyes, its serenest butterfly, admired and spoiled alike by the French and American element.
The same audience that becomes almost intoxicated with the excitement of the Italian opera will listen with the fullest, serenest pleasure to the majestic symphonies of Beethoven or to the sublime choruses of Handel. The devotees of the various European schools have none of this catholicity.
Doubt, contrition of soul, and the other modes of spiritual agonia, are not these equivalent with the life, not death, of the soul? And those moments of serenest peace, when the desire of the heart is one with the desire of the world-soul, are not these attained by conflict?
He was, they subsequently learned, an authority upon insect life in Yaque, for he had never had the smallest opportunity to go to war. As Balator led his guests to their seats near the throne every one looked on them, as they passed, with the serenest fellowship, and no regard persisted longer than a glance, friendly and fugitive.
"I don't know, I'm sure: I never could." "She has the serenest face, like still, shaded water. I wonder how she would look in trouble?" "It is not becoming to her." "Are you sure?" "Quite." "Your way of life here seems so perfect! No hurry nor worry nothing to make wrinkles." "You like this smooth Indian living, then?" "Like it!
Mercury brought the message to her, and found her in her grotto, which is thus described by Homer: "A garden vine, luxuriant on all sides, Mantled the spacious cavern, cluster-hung Profuse; four fountains of serenest lymph, Their sinuous course pursuing side by side, Strayed all around, and everywhere appeared Meadows of softest verdure, purpled o'er With violets; it was a scene to fill A god from heaven with wonder and delight."
It is a personality such as consorts with the opinions which most thoughtful readers of Tennyson's writings must have had of one of the greatest and serenest minds of the age, a poet who, aside from the splendor of his workmanship and the beauty and melody of his verse, has greatly enriched the poetic literature of the century, and has, we feel, given profound thought to the intellectual problems and spiritual aspirations of his era.
But now some childlike man stands up and speaks it to the common air, in serenest unconsciousness of doing anything singular. He has said it, and lo, he lives! By the help of God, then, we too, by word and deed, will utter our souls. Get one hero, and you may have a thousand. Create a grand impulse in history, and no fear but it will be reinforced.
Mr March's fine old face shone with the serenest satisfaction, for this was the dream of his life fulfilled after patient waiting; and the love and reverence in the countenances of the eager young men and women looking up at him plainly showed that the reward he coveted was his in fullest measure.
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