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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