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O the pleasure of descending with ease, innocence, and resignation! Indeed, there is nothing like it! An humble mind, I plainly see, cannot meet with any very shocking disappointment, let fortune's wheel turn round as it will. So I went down to look for Mrs. Jervis, to see how she liked me.
Then he went in and shut the door, shut the door on all his bright hopes, on all his fond dreams, on the day that was to have held such happiness, but that had brought instead the cruelest disappointment of his life. The tears ran down his little black face as he undressed himself.
Then he put his brown cap on top of his little red coat, rolled up his shirt sleeves and began his work. He swung the axe high above his head and brought it down against the tree with a great bang! He looked and to his disappointment saw that he had not cut even a tiny chip. "I will try again," he vowed. "What others have done, I can do."
Never in all my life shall I lose the memory of those wistful eyes that did not so much as look up to my face, but levelled themselves to my hand, and filmed with bitter disappointment to find it empty. I could see that the wreath was a very insignificant matter.
"And now," he said, "for a look at the treasure." He rubbed his hands together as Herman produced the letter. Heads close, they examined it under the lamp. Then they glanced at each other. "A cipher," said the concierge shortly. "It tells nothing." It was a moment of intense disappointment.
At the lower end we found an earthen pot sealed up, which the gentleman in the white hat proceeded to open. To the disappointment of the lady with the red parasol and all of us, there was not a piece of gold in it only a paper on which was written,
It was evidently a sweet, natural sleep, the most wonderful sleep of all, mingled with many a broken dream-rainbow. I rose at last, and, telling Janet that I would return in the evening, went back to my quarters; for my absence from the mid-day meal would have been a disappointment to the household. When I returned to the cottage, I found Margaret only just awaked, and greatly refreshed.
He listened keenly and, with a sensible feeling of disappointment, heard the door close, the noise cease, and Jomar's steps quietly cross the floor again. This time, however, they went right to the other end of the room, and an inner door opened. He thought he caught Atli's tones answering his sullen servant, and presently he heard two men come out and go to the outer door.
Another loud yell, but of disappointment and anger, was heard drowning that of exultation pealed by the triumphant warrior, who, darting to the open extremity of the bridge, directed his flight along the margin of the river, where a light canoe was ready to receive him.
But parenthood is doomed to disappointment it does not endure long enough to see the end. Youth is so headstrong and wilful: it will not learn from the experience of others. And all these years of preparation and expense! Better had he died and been laid to rest with the three now in the churchyard.
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