On the contrary, his crowing and laughing were infectious.

His little heart was so full of merriment that it could not hold it all, and it ran over into theirs.

Father and mother began to laugh too, and Diamond laughed till he had a fit of coughing which frightened his mother, and made them all stop.

His father took the baby, and his mother put him to bed.
But it was indeed a change to them all, not only from Sandwich, but from their old place, instead of the great river where the huge barges with their mighty brown and yellow sails went tacking from side to side like little pleasure-skiffs, and where the long thin boats shot past with eight and sometimes twelve rowers, their windows now looked out upon a dirty paved yard.

And there was no garden more for Diamond to run into when he pleased, with gay flowers about his feet, and solemn sun-filled trees over his head.