to the Tombs Prison , and , followingfollowhim unobserved , was highly delighteddelightwhen the unsuspicious stranger walkedwalkup the front steps of the great stone building on Centre Street , and triedtryto obtain admission .
The celandines in particular delighteddelightme with their clean , happy brightness , so beautifully trim and newly varnishedvarnish, as though they too had had the painters at work on them .
Early March , gray , quiet skies , and brown , quiet earth ; leafless and sad and lonely enough out there in the damp and silence , yet there I stood feeling the same rapture of pure delightdelightin the first breathbreathof spring that I used to as a child , and the five wasted years fellfallfrom me like a cloak , and the world was full of hope , and I vowedvowmyself then and there to nature , and have been happy ever since .