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The words came with pauses which lent them force, and the new Secretary, being Senate-trained, lost none of their significance. "Thine office doth demand discretion," the Chief continued, fixing the other with his piercing gaze. "One should choose the tale that may best please that she may go glad-hearted and with a maiden's fancy."
Everything in camp was drenched, the camp-fire as well; for they were but heedless lads, like their generation, and had made no provision against rain. Here was matter for dismay, for they were soaked through and chilled. Then they piled on great dead boughs till they had a roaring furnace, and were glad-hearted once more.
There was an eager huckling for bargains, or a stolid calculation of values, or a loud commendation of wares, or an oppressive indifference. Where was the "fair" to which of old the people swarmed, glad-hearted? Where was even the relaxed caution of the shopping-day? Where was the gay chaffering, the boisterous bandying of wit?
How familiar did that dear spot seem! but how agonizing the contrast that forced itself upon her! Little did the merry maiden who looked out upon the pale mother, with drooping form and soiled garments, who gazed up so earnestly towards her, imagine, that but a few years before, that poor creature looked forth from that same window, a glad-hearted girl.
The clepsydra, in the little brook, dropping its pebbles to mark the hours; the arytaena placed on the rock for thirsty travellers; the door loaded with garlands, placed there by glad-hearted boys; the tablet covered with mathematical lines, lying on the wooden bench, sheltered by grape-vines trained in the Athenian fashion, with a distaff among the foliage; all these spoke to me of souls that unite the wisdom of age with the innocence of childhood."
It was the wilderness indeed. Coyotes howled far away in the night, and diving beaver boomed out in the black stream. We built half a dozen fires and swung above them the choice portions of our kill. And how we ate with what glorious appetites! It is good to sit with a glad-hearted company flinging words of joyful banter across very tall steins.
For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.
Isabella, in parting with him, had spoken such words as sent a thrill of delight over his whole being, and he quitted Segovia buoyant and glad-hearted, to wait weeks, months, he thought even years: so certain did he feel of success at last.
But I had suddenly become too glad-hearted for a sharp retort. "If you will please throw me the line, and push me off," I said confidently, "I'll drop out into the current." I dropped out. "Now for putting a crimp in some people's vanity!" I exulted. I cranked. Nothing doing! I cranked some more. No news from the crimping department. I continued to crank; also, I continued to drift.
Everything in camp was drenched, the camp-fire as well; for they were but heedless lads, like their generation, and had made no provision against rain. Here was matter for dismay, for they were soaked through and chilled. Then they piled on great dead boughs till they had a roaring furnace, and were glad-hearted once more.
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