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Walkingshaw lit a cigar, and then settled himself down to remove by gentle argument the cloud that temporarily obscured his son's serenity. "Just look at the thing for a moment in a quiet and reasonable light, Andrew. Happiness, as you are well aware, is the chief aim of humanity. Damn it, our religion teaches us that or practically that. A kind of warm and amiable gleefulness that's the ideal.
Over the wall they went, and through the gate that withstood not their charge. O Heaven! they were not men those Normans, they were storms and floods, they were fire and mad waves of ocean, that scorn with wild gleefulness the granite rock and scarped boulder! I have seen the sea, swept in by a fierce north wind, so triumph over man's poor defences.
With a charming gleefulness, he did the most outrageous things at which Master Adolphus, aetat twelve, would have turned up his nose, as being much beneath his years and dignity. He said he did it only to amuse the children; but, he took such an active part in the games he instituted, that we declared that he joined in them for his own personal gratification.
Making a prancing dash for Mother's skirts, he demanded that she smell the good, barber smell of his hair. But she laughed such a queer laugh, as she gathered him up in her arms, that the gleefulness suddenly went out of him. "I'm afraid," she said, "I'm afraid there's not enough left of your hair to smell." The suspicion came to David that Mother was not glad.
All protested in vain against this odd whim. The girl plumped herself in on the rear end of the buckboard and dangled her slender feet with the gleefulness of a child. "Mr. Blake will catch me if I go to jolt off," she declared. The engineer nodded with responsive gayety and seated himself beside her.
Why is he not as brave as the bird? Are there any choicer, more exquisite words in which to say it? They come to a little stream. "Oh, just down here is Kissing Bridge," she says, with a kind of girlish gleefulness. She had made her father tell the old Dutch story one evening, when they were all sitting on the stoop.
Yet a true crab of this day been wishful to pinch me, had I put my toe forth unto it. Now, I went back to the Maid, and she did laugh with a little, weak gleefulness; so that I perceived that she was like to be a very joyous maiden, if but I did have her in health. And I made her another cup of the broth, and she drank it very easy.
On his own ground he is even very fresh and healthy: his delineation of youthful maternity, for example, is as true as it is beautiful; and his sympathy with the gleefulness of children is devoid of affectation.
He took it first in the time and manner of a rant; presently this ill-favoured gleefulness abated, he began to dwell upon the notes more feelingly, and sank at last into a degree of maudlin pathos that was to me scarce bearable. By equal steps, the original briskness of his acts declined; and when he was stripped to his breeches, he sat on the bedside and fell to whimpering.
"And I was born in Rome, wasn't I, uncle?" he exclaimed at last. "I am a Roman; Romanus sum!" Then he laughed with his wonted bright gleefulness. It was half in jest, but for all that there was a genuine warmth on his cheek, and lustre in his fine eyes. "Some day I will go to Rome again," he said, "and both of you shall go with me. We shall see the Forum and the Capitol!
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