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But now that I have descended, partly out of curiosity and partly out of inefficiency, no doubt, into the low-lying vales, I have found them to be beautiful and interesting places, the hedgerows full of flower and leaf, the thickets musical with the voices of birds, the orchards loaded with fruit, the friendly homesteads rich with tranquil life and abounding in quiet friendly people; and then the very peaks themselves, past which my way occasionally conducts me, have a beautiful solemnity of pure outline and strong upliftedness, seen from below, which I think they tend to lose, seen from the summit; and if I have spoken of the quieter joys, it is I can say this with perfect honesty because I have been pleased with them, as a bird is pleased with the sunshine and the berries, and sings, not that the passers-by may admire his notes, but out of simple joy of heart; and, after all, it is enough justification, if a pilgrim or two have stopped upon their way to listen with a smile.
And this thing to be very dear and amazing; and she to be as that she not to know then that she sang; but as that she did be lost in her thoughts, as we do say, and this to have come sudden upon her, out of all her upliftedness of spirit, that had been like to make her very open unto all subtile and subtle powers of thought and inward stirrings, as you shall think.
And surely the night did be full of an astonishment and upliftedness of the Millions, so that their spiritual cryings did go all about me, and did tell me that they had perceived this thing, and did cast their love and delight unto me, and a vast excitement to be upon them. And lo!
They were calm so calm, and determined and innocent. They thrilled him with their trust and the royal beauty of her faith. There came to him an upliftedness that shook him. "To the end of the world," he said "ah, you have said so much so much more than I could ever deserve." "I have stood it all as long as I could.
Mr Cowie threw his library, with very little restriction, open to her; and books old and new were all new to her. She carried every fresh one home with a sense of riches and a feeling of upliftedness which I can ill describe.
James Whitcomb Riley, whose sweetness of character and upliftedness of soul equal his genius, gave me the best recipe for faith in God, Christ, and Immortality I have ever heard: "Just believe," said he; "don't argue about it; don't question it; simply say, 'I believe. Next day you will find yourself believing a little less feebly, and finally your faith will be absolute, certain, and established."
Just below him was the barricade of cotton bales, its two defenders, grim and silent behind them the two wounded ones lying still and so quiet so quiet it looked like death, and Richard Travis prayed that it was not. One of them had given him his death wound, but he held no bitterness for him only that upliftedness, only the glory of that feeling within him he knew not what.
"No, you don't, and I humbly beg your pardon for making such an unwarrantable insinuation. It merely occurred to me that the general upliftedness I observe in you might be owing to that, since it wasn't poetry." "It is the good company I've been keeping, if anything. A fellow can't spend 'A Week' with Thoreau and not be the better for it.
And in the courtly bow was such a look of tenderness that with fluttering heart and a strange new feeling of upliftedness a confidence in him for the first time, she stopped and gave him her hand with a grateful smile. It was a simple act and so pretty that the sadness went from Travis' face as he said: "I was not going to stop you this is kind of you. Saturday, I thought you feared me."
So, at last, I got a plan of my own, an' I goes up the steps and rings the bell, an' when the flunkey, with more of an air of gen'ral upliftedness about him than any one I'd seen yet, excep' Nelson on top of his pillar, opened the door an' looked at me, I asked him, "'Is Earl Cobden in? "At this the man opened his eyes, an' remarked: "'What uv it if he is? "Then I answers, firmly:
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