At the end of the story how might Lucinda have expected the orangutan to react when she revealed her portrait

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It was a bitter cold saturday morning ,the young track star dressed for his daily five mile run

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?