He was afire with the joy of existence, radiant with happiness, excited--and not ashamed to show it--by all the newness and fascination of Indian life.

The Major screwed his eye-glass into his eye and smiled encouragingly; the Adjutant measured him with peg to his lip and knew he would do.

Every one felt that the new sub was an acquisition.
But it must not be supposed that there was any "bounce" about the new boy.

Apart from his breeding and training, which would effectually prevent a man from committing the unpardonable sin of the social world, Baden-Powell by nature was, and still is, a little bashful.
There are people who pooh-pooh the very idea of such a thing, and declare that the man they have heard act and sing and play the fool is no more nervous than a bishop among curates.

Nevertheless they are wrong; and your humble servant entirely right.