So he nodded, smiled, listened, was happy.

The story sums him up best to me. He thought of the grand gesture and then did it.

You can when you mean to,' said Maurice gently. 'You can do anything once you know what it is.

He preferred yielding his own wish to gratify others, rather than to insist upon having his own way.

Fulfilling absolute decree in casual simplicity.

For he will do
As he do do
And there's no doing anything about it!

- <i>The Rum Tum Tugger</i>

He liked her; it was as simple as that.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

Everything he undertook was easy to him, and by a pleasant self-deception he made the passing of a school task his augury of success in greater things.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity;

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

Our Lord has deigned to make me understand that by simple obedience I shall please Him best.

— for though he never after went to the house, yet he never met <i>Bridget</i> in the village, but he would either nod or wink, or smile, or look kindly at her, — or (as circumstances directed), he would shake her by the hand, — or ask her lovingly how she did, — or would give her a ribban, — and now and then, though never but when it could be done with decorum, would give <i>Bridget</i> a —