"aftersmile" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1861, Charles Spurgeon, “Accidents, Not Punishments”, in The New Park Street and Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, volume 7, London: Passmore and Alabaster, published 1862, page 636",
          "text": "[…] there were funerals as the result of a holy effort (for holy effort still we avow it to have been, and the aftersmile of God hath proved it so).",
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          "ref": "1893 August, Mary Baker Eddy, “The Mother’s Evening Prayer”, in Christian Science Journal, volume 11, number 5, page 193",
          "text": "No night drops down upon the troubled breast, / When heaven’s aftersmile, earth’s teardrops gain, / And mother finds her home and far-off rest.",
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          "ref": "1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Scribner, published 1957, Part 2, Chapter 21, p. 236",
          "text": "Smiling with imperturbable tenderness, Mrs. Selborne thrust out her heavy legs slowly to swell with warm ripe smack his gift of flowered green-silk garters. Wetting his thumb with sly thin aftersmile, he told.",
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          "ref": "1986, Kojo Laing, chapter 3, in Search Sweet Country, San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books, pages 33–34",
          "text": "New truths were coming to her, and she at first laughed at them, laughed at what her own head was telling her […]. Her aftersmile spread into the doubt in her eyes when her head told her that she would soon be able to carry the daylight on her back.",
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        "A smile that follows something."
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          "ref": "1992, Judith Saxton, chapter 4, in This Royal Breed,, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 71",
          "text": "It made her smile, just a little one, and that was good, but the smile got switched off pretty soon and somehow that made it worse, because there was such a contrast in her face between smile and aftersmile.",
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