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The health was drunk soleusto, and under cover of it Lewis fled out of doors His despondency had passed, and a fit of fierce exhilaration had seized him Men still swore by his name; he was still loved by his own folk; small matter to him if a townsman had defeated him He was no vain talker, but a doer, a sportsman, an adventurer This was his true career Let others have the applause of excited indoor folk or dull visionaries; for him a man's path, a man's work, and a h in a shoreless sea of blue, and in the still weather the streams called to each other froh on the ridge shoulder the lights of Etterick twinkled starlike amid the fretted veil of trees A sense of extraordinary and crazy exhilaration, the recoil from the constraint of weeks, laid hold on his spirit He huh with the pure pleasure of life The quixotic, the generous, the hopeless, the successful; laughter and tears; death and birth; the warm hearth and the open road--all see "I'll to Lochiel and Appin and kneel to theht and a racious,the truth, he let go the bridle, put an arh the stirrup leathers, and walked by the horse's side "So that's the way you take it, old chap? Do you know that you are a discredited and defeatedlike a boy I have hopes for you, Lewie You have the Buoyant Heart, and with that nothing can much matter But, confound it! you are hours late for dinner"