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Franklin showed to verse-making put a damper upon Benjamin's poetical aspirations. The air-castle that his youthful imagination had built, in consequence of the rapid sale of his literary wares, tumbled to ruin at once. He went back to the office and his work quite crest-fallen. "What has happened now?" inquired James, noticing that Benjamin looked somewhat less smiling.
Affecting not to hear his entreaties that he would stay and advise with him, Ralph left the crest-fallen Mr Mantalini to his meditations, and left the house quietly. 'Oho! he said, 'sets the wind that way so soon? Half knave and half fool, and detected in both characters? I think your day is over, sir.
Some returned with jocund faces, and our hopes mounted with the anticipation of similar good fortune; others came out melancholy and crest-fallen, and then the expression of their countenances was communicated to our own, and we quailed with fear and apprehension.
In fact, when a delegation had gone to the parsonage to demand obedience to the constitution of the church, the Dominie had replied that the ladies had come out victorious in the matter, and that it was an old-fashioned idea to forbid the women to speak or pray in public if they so wished; and the crest-fallen delegates had gone away from the rectory, and Bill Hopkins, with several others, from the church.
'Remember, Lance, not a word of this at home or anywhere else. 'Not tell any one ? cried the boy, crest-fallen. 'Don't you see, Lance, besides the impropriety of talking of what involves two deaths, it would be the most senseless thing in the world to let this make the least difference.
"Then the only part of my story," I said, a little crest-fallen, "which is new to you is the information that you were a goddess and I a high priest, out there in the South Seas?" "Oh, that wasn't new at all," she ruthlessly enlightened, "I knew that, too." "Is there anything you don't know?" I inquired. "What gift of prophetic vision " "There wasn't any vision about it," she interrupted.
"I say, Archie, where are you?" called out Frank. "Here I am. I thought, sure, that owl was mine." And Archie came forward, holding his gun in the hollow of his arm, and looking a little crest-fallen. "You were not far behind," said Frank, laughing. "That's poor consolation. I wanted to be first.
The men in the boat immediately cried out to him not to repeat the shot, but he was so angry that he swore he would shoot somebody, and sent another bullet after them. No one was hurt, however, but the brave overseer was vanquished. Crest-fallen and unrevenged, he shortly after called on Capt.
For some time after that last exposure, I was thoroughly crest-fallen and not without reason. I had been giving a few lectures among the working men, on various literary and social subjects. I found my audience decrease and those who remained seemed more inclined to hiss than to applaud me. In vain I ranted and quoted poetry, often more violently than my own opinions justified.
And so among ourselves, my dear child: we meet with people whose whole power comes from without, who are brilliant and haughty in the sunshine of good fortune, but crest-fallen, cowardly, and cringing in the cold days of adversity.
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