It sounded like the decanting of mellow wine, long hidden in darksome cellars, and now, in the flower of its age, bringing to the light the smiling of ancient vineyards and the shining of forgotten suns.

"Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling ."

For a moment they stood looking at each other, and she remembered thereafter his sad and quizzical smiling.

Thou hast beheld things that empower thee to sustain my smiling.