My hands clinched, but I said with forced gayety:

He began with forced gayety:-

He is the most ridiculous mixture of forced gayety and silent hopelessness, he is affected-ruthlessand brutal toward himself and others.

"I am going never to return," replied Philippe with an air of forced gayety.

Even De Noyan yielded to this spirit of brooding and, after a faint effort at forced gayety, crept silently to his sleeping-place.

"What does it matter where or what our abode is?" she interrupted, with forced gayety.

"Take care of yourself-andthe kitten," he added, with forced gayety, as he crossed the room.

"Good-morning, father," said Charles Henry, with forced gayety, as he offered his hand to his father.

"Oh, very well!" she answered, throwing up her head with a little touch of forced gayety.

I took pains not to feign any forced gayety, nor had I occasion to, for I was genuinely happy-happierthan I had ever been before.

However, she turned away, and saying, with a forced gayety, "Well, then, you will not desert us; we shall see you once more?"

"Go, go, corrupter!" replied Serge, with the same forced gayety; "you are flashing your money in front of us.

"Then come, senores," cried Don Luis, with forced gayety, as he thrust a hand under the arms of Tom and Harry.

"To your health, Reine!" said he, with forced gayety, "next time we clink glasses together, I shall be an experienced soldier-you'llsee!"