I was struck by the pleasant equality which reigned among the stage company, and their broad and invulnerable good humor. They were what is called free and easy, and met one another to advantage, as men who had at length learned how to live. They appeared to know each other when they were strangers, they were so simple and downright.
They were well-met, in an unusual sense, that is, they met as well as they could meet, and did not seem to be troubled with any impediment. They were not afraid or ashamed of one another, but were contented to make just such a company as the ingredients allowed.
From Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod, Thomas E. Crowell, 1966
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