A clergyman in search of the Cooper Institute he once directeddirectto 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 .