So filled was she with lofty devotion to the cause, so complete her faith in its holiness, and so unquestioning her belief that it was every one's simple duty to brave all dangers for it, and die if need be without a murmur, that contact with her would have inspired with pure patriotic ardor a nature much less ready for such leavening than Harry's.
As Dr.Denslow had surmised, his faults were mainly superficial, and underneath them was a firm gristle of manhood, which would speedily harden into bone.

With the experience he had been having, days would mature this as rapidly as ordinary years.

He was himself hardly aware of the transformation, but only felt, as his physical exhaustion disappeared, a new eagerness to participate in the great work of the war.

He was gratified to know a little later that this was no transient feeling.

In the course of the evening Jim Fortner came back in, with Kent Edwards and Abe Bolton.