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Adventures in Contentment
·
David Grayson
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It
was
beautiful
to
see
commonplace
facts
grow
phosphorescent
in
the
heat
of
true
feeling.
How
little
we
may
come
to
know
Romance
by
the
cloak
she
wears
and
how
humble
must
be
he
who
would
surprise
the
heart
of
her!
It
was,
indeed,
with
an
indescribable
thrill
that
I
heard
him
add
the
details,
one
by
one--the
mortgage
on
his
place,
now
rapidly
being
paid
off,
the
brother
who
was
a
plumber,
the
mother-in-law
who
was
not
a
mother-in-law
of
the
comic
papers.
And
finally
he
showed
us
the
picture
of
the
wife
and
baby
that
he
had
in
the
cover
of
his
watch;
a
fat
baby
with
its
head
resting
on
its
mother's
shoulder.
"Mister,"
he
said,
"p'raps
you
think
it's
fun
to
ride
around
the
country
like
I
do,
and
be
away
from
home
most
of
the
time.
But
it
ain't.
When
I
think
of
Minnie
and
the
kid--"
He
broke
off
sharply,
as
if
he
had
suddenly
remembered
the
shame
of
such
confidences.
"Say,"
he
asked,
"what
page
is
that
poem
on?"
I
told
him.
"One
forty-six,"
he
said.
"When
I
get
home
I'm
going
to
read
that
to
Minnie.
She
likes
poetry
and
all
such
things.
And
where's
that
other
piece
that
tells
how
a
man
feels
when
he's
lonesome?
Say,
that
fellow
knew!"
We
had
a
genuinely
good
time,
the
agent
and
I,
and
when
he
finally
rose
to
go,
I
said:
"Well,
I've
sold
you
a
new
book."
"I
see
now,
mister,
what
you
mean."
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