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Adventures in Contentment
·
David Grayson
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In
the
hours
which
followed,
on
the
pleasant
winding
way
to
the
cemetery,
in
the
groups
under
the
trees,
on
the
way
homeward
again,
the
community
spoke
its
true
heart,
and
I
have
come
back
with
the
feeling
that
human
nature,
at
bottom,
is
sound
and
sweet.
I
knew
a
great
deal
before
about
Doctor
North,
but
I
knew
it
as
knowledge,
not
as
emotion,
and
therefore
it
was
not
really
a
part
of
my
life.
I
heard
again
the
stories
of
how
he
drove
the
country
roads,
winter
and
summer,
how
he
had
seen
most
of
the
population
into
the
world
and
had
held
the
hands
of
many
who
went
out!
It
was
the
plain,
hard
life
of
a
country
doctor,
and
yet
it
seemed
to
rise
in
our
community
like
some
great
tree,
its
roots
deep
buried
in
the
soil
of
our
common
life,
its
branches
close
to
the
sky.
To
those
accustomed
to
the
outward
excitements
of
city
life
it
would
have
seemed
barren
and
uneventful.
It
was
significant
that
the
talk
was
not
so
much
of
what
the
Doctor
did
as
of
how
he
did
it,
not
so
much
of
his
actions
as
of
the
natural
expression
of
his
character.
And
when
we
come
to
think
of
it,
goodness
is
uneventful.
It
does
not
flash,
it
glows.
It
is
deep,
quiet
and
very
simple.
It
passes
not
with
oratory,
it
is
commonly
foreign
to
riches,
nor
does
it
often
sit
in
the
places
of
the
mighty:
but
may
be
felt
in
the
touch
of
a
friendly
hand
or
the
look
of
a
kindly
eye.
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