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 <WSD>glories</WSD> of health and Nature and service and land knows what all. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.