Can't you see that I am the gladdest man on earth?

"The gladdest ever!" Roly-Poly was happy too.

These are only then gladdest of other, when they meet in some foreign region, where the encompassing of strangers unites them closer, till at last they get new, and throw off one another.

Yesbut in the jar This thought brings to me with its curse, I sometimes think the gladdest are "It might have been a blamed sight worse.

" Phil received this untoward news as if a flock of angels, ringing joy bells, had just brought him the gladdest tidings in history.

Thurnall, I think you said?I am glad to make your acquaintance, sir.

"And Lucia," she said at last, "will be so glad to see him again.

" The Major saw the truth of the last sentence no more than Valencia herself did; for Valencia would have been glad enough to pour out to him, with every exaggeration, her sister's woes and wrongs, real and fancied, had not the sense of her own folly with Vavasour kept her silent and conscience-stricken.

Thurnall attacks him; Major Campbell, Headley; the neighbours join in the cry; for there is no mistaking cause and effect there, and no one bears a great love to him; besides, terrified and conscience-stricken men are glad of a scapegoat; and some of those who were his stoutest backers in the vestry are now, in their terror, the loudest against him, ready to impute the whole cholera to him.

I am always right glad now to get a fall whenever I make a stumble.

" "Glad to hear it, sir.

" "Glad you're satisfied, sir; wish you was going to stay," says Tardrew.

"Do you know, Val and Lucia, I'm glad I've seen it: I don't know, but I feel as if I should be a better man all my life; and those poor people, how well they did behave!

but for myself, I cannot be too glad of it.

Campbell and Lucia, Mellot, Valencia, and Frank, utterly deceived, went on more merrily than ever, little dreaming that they walked and talked daily with a man who was fast becoming glad to flee to the pit of hell, but for the fear that "God would be there also."

We justify our present discomfort with the promise of a bright future of flowers and sunshine and gladdest life, though we know that in the garden of art there are many chrysalides and few butterflies.

To find the just word for all our emotions, to realise that our most trivial thought is illimitably creative, to feel that it is our lot to keep life's gladdest promises, to see the great souls of men and women, steadfast in existence as stars in a windless poolthese, indeed, are no ordinary pleasures.

And I am almost gladdest of this,each lady has five dollars a month for spending money!

"'The gladdest, happiest papa in Connecticut,' I added.

The Pride of Life GLADDEST (Born in 1836).

"He would have been the gladdest at our success.

To show, indeed, how little there is of the extempore, the hap-hazard, the hit-or-miss, in the character of creative thought, and how completely the gladdest inspiration is earned, let us glance at the psychological history of one of those imperial ideas which measure the power, test the quality, and convey the life, of the minds that conceive them.

With bowl that sped from hand to hand, The gladdest of the gladsome band, 370 Amid their own delight and fun, They hearwhen every dance is done, When every whirling bout is o'er The fiddle's squeak

With bowl in hand, (It may not stand) Gladdest of the gladsome band, Amid their own delight and fun, 1819.

With bowl that sped from hand to hand, Refreshed, brimful of hearty fun, The gladdest of the gladsome band, 1836.]