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Updated: May 24, 2025
Now that they were in the light, they could take stock of each other, and found it in their hearts to start a feeble laugh at the covering of mud, smoke, and green mould that almost disguised their identity. But it was a comfort to stretch their aching limbs in the sun, to take the pure air into their lungs, to look restfully away over the trees that marched unbroken to the uttermost horizon.
And straightway it was settled that he was not a diplomatist or a statesman or a man of business of any kind. The reflection which occupied him had nothing to do with intrigues or statecraft; its centre was in his heart as the look proved. So, in tender moods, a father gazes upon his child, a husband at the beloved wife, restfully, lovingly.
There was a look of unspeakable satisfaction on her face the look of the creator who sees his completed work and pronounces it good. "I've been a hard worker all my life," she said, seating herself and folding her hands restfully, "but 'most all my work has been the kind that 'perishes with the usin', as the Bible says. That's the discouragin' thing about a woman's work.
Indeed, the better concentrated we are, the more easily and restfully we can work, for concentration does not mean straining every nerve and muscle toward our work, it means dropping everything that interferes, and strained nerves and muscles constitute a very bondage of interference.
Only occasionally did we exchange a few words with one another words, for the most part, that were of little purport or substance, yet words to which it delighted me to apportion their several meanings, their peculiar secret values. My life had now become full I was happy; I was quietly, restfully happy. Thus did several weeks elapse....
Robin, with the look of a man who has a hard day's work behind him, a full meal inside him, and a sound night's sleep before him and what three greater blessings could a man ask for himself? sat beside her, smiling largely and restfully on the company around him. Suddenly Dicky made an announcement. "There is one more bottle," he said. "Come on, let's buzz it!"
Everything about La Feria was restfully un-American, from the house itself, with its bare walls and floors, its brilliantly flowering patio, and its primitive kitchen arrangements, to the black-shawled, barefooted Indian women and their naked children rolling in the dust. Even the timberless mountains that rose sheer from the westward plain into a tumbling purple-shadowed rampart were Mexican.
"If Amos Palmer is your father, you will surely find him by your bedside after you have had your nap," Doctor Wesselhoff responded, and with another hand-clasp he withdrew from the room. In less than five minutes Ray was sleeping quietly and restfully. Half an hour later the great brain specialist rang the bell of Amos Palmer's handsome residence.
"I reckon taking things easily and restfully will suit us as well as anything," smiled Jack. "That is, unless you have some plan you particularly wish to suggest." "Well," continued Radwin, thoughtfully, "the town is rather full of sailors, just at present, and they're making the nights lively in some sections.
Their road after crossing the mountains was up the Cumberland Valley, hemmed in on the north by the gracefully sloping spurs of Pine Mountain and flanked on the south by the more rugged and closely encroaching Cumberland mountains. The river gurgles and murmurs and surges along over a bottom of boulders or lies restfully placid over a bottom of sand.
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