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Amid the dejection of the Tories and the sneers of the Whigs, this measure became law, March 2, 1778; and commissioners, empowered to grant general amnesty, were sent with it to the United States.
There was so little of Herculaneum: only a few hundred yards square are exhumed, and we counted the houses easily on the fingers of one hand, leaving the thumb to stand for the few rods of street that, with its flagging of lava and narrow border of foot-walks, lay between; and though the custodian, apparently moved at our dejection, said that the excavation was to be resumed the very next week, the assurance did little to restore our cheerfulness.
The raging waters suddenly seized him, and hurried him away before the eyes of the people. When he was drawn out, far down the river, he was a corpse. Boundless lamentations resounded throughout the army; the most brilliant ornament and sole hope of Christendom was gone; the troops arrived at Antioch in a state of the deepest dejection.
I waked with this thought, and was under such inexpressible impressions of joy at the prospect of my escape in my dream, that the disappointments which I felt upon coming to myself, and finding it was no more than a dream, were equally extravagant the other way, and threw me into a very great dejection of spirit.
Her drooping figure, so unlike her usual erect and joyous bearing, proclaimed her dejection, as well as fatigue. She felt utterly spent. She had not reached the room when a hand lightly touched her shoulder. She turned quickly to meet George Dalton's smiling gaze, and her own face amply reflected his gladness. As he saw it a new expression leaped to his eyes.
They met at Lockton, where he arrived after a recent consultation with his Chief, of whom, and the murmurs of the Cabinet, he spoke to Diana openly, in some dejection. 'They might see he has been breaking with his party for the last four years, she said. 'The plunge to be taken is tremendous. 'But will he? He appears too despondent for a header. 'We cannot dance on a quaking floor.
Thinks she, 'he will charge it on the kitchen; so unreasonable's men. Yes," she added, in answer to the rigid dejection of his look, "I said true to you. I know I said, 'Not a penny can I get, William, when you asked me for loans; and how could I get it? I can't get it now. See here, dear!" She took the box from under Rhoda's shawl, and rattled it with a down turn and an up turn.
"She hain't a-coming visiting here again, is she, sur?" he groaned. "Visiting! It's much worse than that, a thousand times worse. She is coming here for good, to manage all of us and you too!" they gasped. Jabez dropped helpless on to an upturned bucket, the picture of hopeless dejection. "There won't be no peace in life no more," he said, "and I shan't be allowed to show my nose in the kitchen.
He raised both arms in a gesture of complete dejection. "My God!" "Says it looks suspicious," went on Mr. Bacon, "flocking with us as you do. He mentioned something about birds of a feather." Mr. Rushcroft arose majestically. "I shall see the man myself, Mr. Barnes. His infernal insolence " "Pray do not distress yourself, my dear Rushcroft," interrupted Barnes. "He is quite within his rights.
From the sad scenes described in the last chapter, Eugene returned to Italy. Hortense, in the deepest state of dejection, remained for a short time in Paris, often visiting her mother at Malmaison. About five months after the divorce, Napoleon was again married to Maria Louisa, daughter of the Emperor of Austria.
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