Go!" A short while after Ben-Hur was upon his bench again.
A man's task is always light if his heart is light.

Handling the oar did not seem so toilsome to Judah.

A hope had come to him, like a singing bird.

He could hardly see the visitor or hear its song; that it was there, though, he knew; his feelings told him so.

The caution of the tribune--"Perhaps I do but play with thee"-- was dismissed often as it recurred to his mind.