The story begins with descriptions of happy human families and follows an initially oblivious Rat learning to understand and help a sensitive Mole missing home.
In time, he marries Natasha; the novel's epilogue brings a description of the happy marriages of these two couples, Nikolai and Marya and Pierre and Natasha.
In this way, they gathered descriptions of 100,000 happy moments from equal proportions of men and women.
SOMEONE trying to describe Jock Soto and Luis Fuentes — and their relationship — might turn to Washington Irving and his description of Ichabod Crane: "a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance" and "yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke".
We should not assume that the interests of advertisers and users of street furniture, or streets, will be brought together by the invisible hand of local government.ROSS SCOTTSydneySIR Your description of Switzerland as happy in Alpine isolation misses the point ("Switzerland toys with Europe", May 13th).
The clenched fist does seem a rather happy description of the home of a mayor and city assembly that have had to fight a long battle against the forces of Thatcherism for their right to exist.
This is in fact a moment of respite in what is overall a downward trajectory from the happy description of his early life with which Victor opens his narrative, to the appalling ending.
"Epilogue" is Anne Roiphe's description of the aftermath of their happy, 39-year marriage.
Why was Flynn's manager so happy to hear Flynn's description of the cart attendant role?
Cliched descriptions of Collingwood as "happy-go-lucky" or "a grafter" are trundled out whenever his contribution is assessed.
