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She had first purposed to carry Henrietta home to her mother herself; but another scheme for her now occurred, from which she hoped much future advantage to the amiable and dejected girl.
Here, apparently, one did not talk about the heroic deeds which elsewhere gave a man foothold; here such things merely aroused scornful laughter. He tried it again and again, always with something new, but the answer was always the same "Farmer!" His whole little person was overflowing with good-will, and he became deplorably dejected.
Balmawhapple, on the contrary, seemed embarrassed and dejected; and Waverley now, for the first time, observed that his arm was in a sling, which seemed to account for the awkward and embarrassed manner with which he had presented his hand.
He was holding Els by the hand, and it was evident that some sorrowful thought occupied the minds of both. "Has any new horror happened?" fell in tones of anxious enquiry from Eva's lips before she even greeted her dearest relative. "Think of something very bad," was her sister's reply, in a tone so dejected and mournful, that Eva, with a low cry "My father!" pressed her hand upon her heart.
Some wanted to do one thing and some were in favor of doing another; but finding at last that they could not agree, they began drawing away by twos and threes, and finally Rodney Gray was left alone with the commissioned officers. "I am at my wit's end," declared Captain Hubbard, whose face wore a most dejected look.
Marie began to suspect that his friend was being imposed upon. He determined to warn Stewart that his agents were earning their fees too easily. So he returned to Paris more than a little dejected, and sore over this waste of time and effort. He arrived by a noon train, and drove across the city in a fiacre to the rue d'Assas.
M. Letourneur, our French fellow-passenger, often has a chat with me. He is a fine tall man, about fifty years of age, with white hair and a grizzly beard. To say the truth, he looks older than he really is: his drooping head, his dejected manner, and his eye, ever and again suffused with tears, indicate that he is haunted by some deep and abiding sorrow.
His eye sauntered over the delegates, and with a shrewd twinkle halted on the dejected group which had fought his nomination. "This happy occasion reminds me of a Tuscarora County story," he began, with a little drawl; "the story of Tired Tinkham's election as overseer of highways at Noah's Basin a pioneer classic which some of you have doubtless heard.
Not only resigned, but happy in their station, with hearts made cheerful rather than dejected by attentive meditation, Henry and his son planned the means of their future support, independent of their kinsman William nor only of him, but of every person and thing but their own industry.
"What was that?" questioned aunt Hannah, sharply. "Well, now, it's no use snapping one's head off, if the night is howling like old Nick himself," answered Salina, kindling up. "If I was snappish, it wasn't because I meant it," said aunt Hannah, sinking to her dejected position again; "you said something about that night what was it?"
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