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I was a man before I was a priest. It is all natural, what you are saying, and all according to God's law no sin in it. Proceed. Did your happiness do you good?" Pierre shook his head doubtfully. The look of dejection came back to his face. He frowned as if something puzzled and hurt him. "Yes and no! That is the strange thing. It made me thankful that goes without saying.
Not that her passion in any way abated, or her romantic resolution really altered: it was only that her conception of time and place and ways and means was dizzily mutable. But after nigh six months of palpitating negotiations with the adorable Mrs. Glamorys, the poet, in a moment of dejection, penned the prose apophthegm, "It is of no use trying to change a changeable person."
"I fear," William wrote, in an hour of deep dejection, to Heinsius, "I fear that the object of this Third Party is a peace which will bring in its train the slavery of Europe. The day will come when Sweden and her confederates will know too late how great an error they have committed.
"The envelopes had been destroyed, and no name was mentioned, but the photograph was endorsed in the Judge's handwriting." She sank down on a locker, and hid her face in her hands. The pitiful dejection in her attitude compelled me to bend over her in quick sympathy. "Please do not take it like that," I urged. "We shall find a way of escape if we keep our courage, and work together."
"Not? well, then I am really afraid this is a question again, but I cannot help it. If you will not volunteer information, I must ask for it who is to be your companion?" "I suppose they will take turns," say I, relapsing into dejection, as I think of the precarious nature of the society on which I depend; "sometimes one, sometimes another, whichever can get away best they will take turns."
I observed that the boy had an intelligent countenance, though considerably under the influence of fear; with strong marks of kindness in it, but stronger of dejection.
For several weeks he had not heard from his unknown correspondent, and the time was come when he missed those letters, now continued for more than two years; and which, in their eloquent mixture of complaint, exhortation, despondent gloom and declamatory enthusiasm, had often soothed him in dejection, and made him more sensible of triumph.
The dog Nig did not greet her this time; he was stretched out on his belly, his hind legs gathered under him, his forelegs stuck out in front, his long muzzle extending along them, while he watched in apparent anxiety the face of his master, Abe Catherson, who was sitting on the edge of the porch, his elbows on his knees, his chin in his hands, in an attitude of deep dejection.
'Yes, money! he iterated doggedly, and she learnt that he had borrowed a sum of Harrington, and the amount of the sum. It was a disastrous plight, for Mrs. Shorne was penniless. She cited Ferdinand Laxley as a likely lender. 'Oh, I'm deep with him already, said Harry, in apparent dejection.
With a wild terror in her eyes she turned to Charlot, who stood the very picture of anguish and impotent rage. In the cortege, where but a few moments ago all had been laughter, a sob or two sounded now from some of the women. "By my faith," laughed Bellecour contemptuously eyeing their dejection, "you have more the air of a burial than a bridal party."
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