Meetings with King 



those who do the hard work of the 

 world, that others may enjoy their 

 ease, so great that as he further con- 

 fessed, he had stayed most of that 

 summer in town not to let an old 

 retainer of his be left friendless 

 there in sickness. 



It was not a boast of his goodness, 

 and I suspect that he did not like 

 bringing up very serious things in a 

 casual talk lest they should be too 

 serious. The sad side of life he would 

 keep turned inward, or at least he did 

 to my knowledge. But there was yet 

 one more feast at which we foregath- 

 ered where the shades of melancholy 

 and pathetic experience hovered too 

 palpably to be dispersed by the gayety 

 of his talk, subsiding oftener into the 

 easier gayety of that most winning 

 smile of his. 



I did not see him again, but in the 

 church where the words of farewell 

 were said over him, coffined under 

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