HIS PERSONALITY 



sation, if he be deeply stirred, he is impetuous 

 in movement, emphatic in gesture, hardly able 

 to confine himself to the bounds of modera- 

 tion. And yet he never goes a hair's breadth 

 outside the fine, strong line of truth that 

 binds him like a thread of gold to all that is 

 highest and noblest. When any topic is under 

 discussion that takes root in his own life ex- 

 perience, he speaks with great earnestness, and 

 if there perchance be some wrong that needs 

 righting, he minces no words. 



He is swift but genial in repartee, generous 

 in his praise of others, instant in his words of 

 sympathy to one in trouble. At times when 

 he is worn with prolonged bodily and mental 

 toil at the crux of some great test, when every 

 faculty of his being is pushed to the utmost 

 limit, he may rise suddenly after a long period 

 of rest upon the low couch in his room on the 

 entrance of a friend, and then, if the conver- 

 sation but have a nimble turn, he is suddenly 

 alive with animation, entering with zest into 

 a story and laughing with the abandon of 

 a boy. His wit comes out sprightly but never 

 biting; his humor flows graciously — it is never 

 lethargic or ponderous. As swiftly as the con- 



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