Sentence:  Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of <WSD>health</WSD> and Nature and service and land knows what all. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness. (from 11th c.)