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"Yes; they said I might go on a long while yet, but that I would never be the man I was." This was so obvious she could not check a look of pity. "If you're going to look at me like that I'd sooner go into the hospital at once. It ain't the cheerfulest of places, but it will be better than here." "I'm sorry it was consumption. But if they said they could patch you up, it will be all right.
In some aspects it was like enjoying for the first time a part of his existence which he should have enjoyed in youth, but had missed; and in many ways he doubtless enjoyed it more now than he would have done then, for he brought it to a maturity of experience which had taught him the inestimable value of simple things; a quiet nobility of character and clearness of knowledge that enabled him to perceive and follow the right course in small things as in great; a serene yet cordial temperament that rendered him the cheerfulest and most trustworthy of companions; a generous and masculine disposition, as able to direct as to comply; and years which could sympathize impartially with youth and age, and supply something which each lacked.
We coursed extensively, over the Hampstead and Highgate regions, and the country beyond, sauntering or galloping through many leafy lanes and pleasant places, in ever-flowing, ever-changing talk; and returned down Regent Street at nightfall: one of the cheerfulest days I ever had; not to be repeated, said the Fates. Sterling was charming on such occasions: at once a child and a gifted man.
If a wife cannot make her home bright and happy, so that it shall be the cleanest, sweetest, cheerfulest place her husband can find refuge in, a retreat from the toils and troubles of the outer world, then God help the poor man, for he is virtually homeless. "Home-keeping hearts," said Longfellow, "are happiest." What is a good wife, a good mother?
The recent excitement had heightened his color, and, besides, he always strove to look his best and cheerfulest with Charley. Balfour told him all that he had already said to Agnes respecting the provision he had made for her; he thought it better to relieve her from that task. But, to do Charley justice, he was neither grasping nor jealous.
Then it was with the roads: "They don't leave the roads to make themselves in a Protestant canton, the people make them and they make a road that IS a road, too." Next it was the goats: "You never see a goat shedding tears in a Protestant canton a goat, there, is one of the cheerfulest objects in nature."
Water was not abundant, but we still felt justified in trying to keep her bushes and flowers alive; and she stood there holding the hose and throwing the water in the cheerfulest shower upon the beds. Billy stood with his hands on his hips watching her, very hot, very self-contained. He was shining with perspiration; and he looked the better of it.
"Oh, durn their skins," he said in the cheerfulest way, turning to me with a smile, "they got me twice a splinter of a shell in the foot and a bullet through the calf of the same leg when I was being carried back from the firing line." "A sharpshooter?" "The son of a mongrel was up in a tree." "And you're walking back to Siboney. Wasn't there room for you to ride?"
One little restriction after another fell away from him; he went and came with absolute freedom, not only without having to account for his movements, but without having a pang for not doing so. He had the sensation of stretching himself after a cramping posture; and he wrote Marcia the cheerfulest letters, charging her not to cut short her visit from anxiety on his account.
And the Quartier, which knows so much sorrow as well as so much joy, came with its gayest gossip to make her smile. Peter himself lived in a sort of tormented daze. It was Denise, his little Denise, who was going! Denise herself was the calmest and cheerfulest of them all. Her high destiny had been to love Peter Champneys, and she had fulfilled it.
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