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Fiske in a canoe was a ticklish proposition, but there he was at last, comfortably recumbent, his head propped up on cushions, serenely at ease though a very narrow margin intervened between water-line and gunwale.
For example, a man may have an unblemished life and a truly affectionate heart; and yet he may be incorrigible in money-matters, or be ready to sacrifice principle to convenience, or, like our great Middle Class generally, may be serenely content with hideousness and bad manners.
Great ladies sought his smiles; nobles treasured a kindly word; the shopkeeper hung his portrait on the wall; and the people drew aside in the streets that he might pass without annoyance. Through all this adulation Franklin passed serenely, if not unconsciously.
He rushed back, his hands clenched behind his back, his whole body inflated with rage. "Agatha!" he exclaimed, planting himself squarely in front of her. "Will you stop making a trombone of your nose?" "You must be nervous," she said, looking up at him serenely. "I am nervous, I'm nearly crazy. This town is going to hell!" "Your language, Stark! If " "Don't talk to me about my language, Agatha!
Going in to exult over a fallen enemy and to praise a strong-minded sister for the banishment of an objectionable lover, it certainly was a shock to behold the aforesaid enemy serenely sitting on the sofa, with the strongminded sister enthroned upon his knee and wearing an expression of the most abject submission.
"Octavia," she explained, "this is Lady Theobald, whom you will be very glad to know. She knew your father." "Yes," returned my lady, "years ago. He has had time to improve since then. How do you do?" Octavia's limpid eyes rested serenely upon her. "How do you do?" she said, rather indifferently. "You are from Nevada?" asked Lady Theobald. "Yes." "It is not long since you left there?"
"You can talk to me about people, big and little, with whom you have to do, just as serenely as if you were giving your confidence to an oyster. "But, papa, I am confronted by a question of real life, just as difficult for me as any that can perplex you. I can't treat this question any more as I have done. I don't see my way at all.
Tom obediently followed her instructions, and some minutes later his head appeared at the window, and he demanded, "Puss, are you still working for that licking?" "Nope," she answered serenely. "We don't have to talk in whispers now, for Dad has gone up the road and I heard him tell Aunt Maria he wouldn't be home until late." "What does this mean?
When, as had perforce happened during the past week, he must sit with his brethren in the congregation and listen to lukewarm nay, to dead and cold adjurations and expoundings, his very soul itched to mount the pulpit stairs, thrust down the Laodicean that chanced to occupy it, and himself awaken as with the sound of a trumpet this people who slept upon the verge of a precipice, between hell that gaped below and God who sat on high, serenely regardful of his creatures' plight.
He does not say, 'You ought to rejoice, but he says, 'You do rejoice. And yet a verse or two before he said, 'Ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations. So, then, he was not blinking the hard, painful facts of anybody's troubled life. He was not away upon the heights serenely contemptuous of the grim possibilities that lurk down in the dark valleys.
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