The unusual crowd drew the family to the window, when Gilbert himself saw and recognized her, and took to his arms and home his far-come princess with her solitary fond word.
The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm.

Youth sees no darkness ahead,--no defile that has no outlet,--it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world, and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
Of what use was it to forbid the boy Handel to touch a musical instrument, or to forbid him going to school, lest he learn the gamut?
He stole midnight interviews with a dumb spinet in a secret attic.

The boy Bach copied whole books of studies by moonlight, for want of a candle churlishly denied.

Nor was he disheartened when these copies were taken from him.

The painter West began in a garret, and plundered the family cat for bristles to make his brushes.
It is the enthusiasm of youth which cuts the Gordian knot age cannot untie.