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He would speak to Ruth after church, and at least decide his own chances. The vicar's sermon was brief, for the good man had no rival, and could afford to please himself; but its duration, short as it was, gave Reuben ample time to be rejected and accepted a score of times over, and to gild the future with the rosiest or cloud it with the most tempestuous of colors.
A common enough experience in America, the land of sudden changes of fortune, of rosiest hopes about "striking it rich," of carelessness and ignorance as to values, of eager and untrained appetite for luxury and novelty of any and every kind. At first any expenditure, however small, for the plainest comfort which had been beyond their means seemed a giddy extravagance.
Instances have been known of women falling madly in love with men of that sort, and having no desire to exchange their ugliness for the beauty of the freshest and rosiest of Endymions. We must give women their due: they possess an instinct for spiritual beauty, for which reason, possibly, men such as Werner love women so passionately. Werner was small and lean and as weak as a baby.
"Or even fight a big boy," cried the Squire, throwing himself back in his chair with the unctuous laughter of a man who is dining well, and knows it. Vixen blushed rosiest red at the allusion. "Papa, you oughtn't to say such things," she cried; "I was a little bit of a child then." "Yes, and flew at a great boy of fourteen and licked him," exclaimed the Squire, rapturously.
It was of a tall and slender girl, with the rosiest cheeks and the tenderest eyes so daintily dressed, too, that I had never seen anything more perfect. She had a posy of flowers in her hand and another one was lying upon the planks of wood upon which she was standing. "Oh, that's the prettiest, is it?" said she, laughing. "Well, now, walk up to it, and let us hear what is writ beneath it."
"Besides," said Lance, "one can look at other people's parishes more philosophically than at one's own." He had begun to grow a little anxious about his boy, but presently from the garden, up from the cliff-path, the two bounded in- little Felix with the brightest of eyes and rosiest of cheeks, and a great ruddy, white-beaded sea-urchin held in triumph in his hands.
And I shall garner in the best fruits of my solicitude when I shall see this people tranquil from without, free within, devoting itself to agriculture and industry under the protection of the laws and their own good conduct, and by its very prosperity rendering justice in my intentions and blessing its destiny." Subsequent history justified the rosiest hopes of the Emperor.
She had blue eyes, the whitest, strongest of teeth, and the rosiest of faces. "Gran'pa hates a Dutchman wuss'n pizen," she said to me. "So do I. We've all been burned out and sculped up river and they never give us so much as a man or a measure of corn." I helped her feed the animals, and tether them, and loose their bells for the night, and carry the packs under cover.
They were all fresh, strong, coarse, honest, healthy people the men with long yellow hair, large noses and blue eyes, the women with the rosiest of checks and the fullest development of body and limb. Many of the latter wore basques or jackets of sheepskin with the wool inside, striped petticoats and bright red stockings.
Then, indeed, you may cry: The eye of the beholder. But others become cynics, are driven into cynicism, by sad experience. I started in life with the rosiest faith in my fellow-man. If I've lost it, it's because he's always behaved shabbily to me, soon or late; always taking some advantage. The struggle for existence! We're all beasts, who take part in it; we must be, or we're devoured.
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