But she wasn't; or she said she wasn't in one of those moments of gravity which served to throw into higher relief the light-heartedness of her badinage with Lanyard; asserting an entirely willing disposition to stand aside and play the pensive, amused, indulgent spectator in the masque of love danced by a world mad for it, grasping for love greedily even in its cheapest shapes and guises.

Captain Willoughby was silent and thoughtful at first, leaving his son to rattle on, in a way that betokened care, in his view of the matter, quite as much as it betokened light-heartedness in those of his mother and sisters.

Nor did it soon cease; wrangling, laughing, singing, toiling, a light-heartedness that knew no serious cares, and affection, making up the sum of the everyday existence of these semi-civilized beings.

As an abbot he was cheerful and humane, almost to light-heartedness, frank and kind to everybody,an exception to most of the abbots of his day, who were either austere and rigid, or convivial and worldly.

Sarah Gailey made no response to this light-heartedness, and Hilda, with her hands full of vain gewgaws, tried again: "I wonder what Mrs. Granville would say if she saw me!...

Had he been in town he might, in a melancholy reverie caused by the incorrigible light-heartedness of his fellow-countrymen, have wandered bang into the danger zone.

You must cultivate this light-heartedness if you are to hang your betters on your watch-chains.

The flags were down and the counterfeit light-heartedness was gone; but essentially she was the same Brussels.

Hundreds of cities have some such promenade, but few so genial and cosey a one as that of Budapestnot the brittle gayety of some more sophisticated capitals, but the simpler light-heartedness of a people full of feeling, fond of music and talk, and ready to share all they have with a stranger.

" "Poor Mary!" sighed Katherine again, then immediately felt ashamed of her own secret light-heartedness.

Though so long in this country, he had all the simplicity and childlike light-heartedness which belong to the Old World's people.

People will scarcely credit it, but times like these don't dilute the tenacity or light-heartedness of our soldiers.

Her weight was exactly two hundred, and her countenance a strange medley of the light-heartedness of her race, and the habitual and necessary severity of a cook.

"I'm going back directly," she said, and donning her hat she started for home, thinking she had gained but little satisfaction from Hagar, who, as Douglas and Theo passed on, resumed her seat by the door, and, listening to the sound of Margaret's retreating footsteps, muttered: "The old light-heartedness is gone.

And he walked about his garden tending his flowers, wondering at his light-heartedness.

He himself had been too eager to find his work in lifehis pre-ordained workever to discover the deep truths that light-heartedness only can reveal; even when he heard his call to foreign missionsto Hayti, in particularhe felt no such felicity as a man should feel who has climbed to his place in the scheme of things.

Why had she, his Jewel, accepted the loneliness, the impoverishment of those younger days with light-heartedness?

Of course the "submissiveness" and the light-heartedness of the French did not prevent their being also fickle; and their "docility" was varied by fits of violent quarrelling with their American neighbors and among themselves.

I had no irresistible desire to write, nor was there any suggestion of that exalted, or (technically speaking) euphoric, light-heartedness which characterizes elation.

They toiled up the winding stairs together and stood a moment on the balcony, feigning a light-heartedness that neither of them felt.

With much laughter they piled intheir light-heartedness and constant joking reminding such onlookers, as had ever seen the spectacle, of a band of real soldiers going to the front or embarking for foreign stations.

He could scarcely believe it was all true; for it was not very long sinceonly it seemed like long yearssince he had leaped over the counter in his light-heartedness.

You are the most ridiculous person I ever did see!" said Miss Mattie, and she laughed till she cried in sheer light-heartedness.

Worn out with excesses, while still young in years, his doctors had warned him that death might come to him any day; but with the light-heartedness that was his to the last, he laughed at their gloomy forebodings and refused to take the least precautions to safeguard his health.

Having bequeathed to me light-heartedness and a sanguine disposition, and trained me splendidly for my profession in childhood, he became in after years a very cormorant for adulation of me!