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He complains that while other men are joyous and gay, he alone is despondent. He is "calm like a child that does not yet smile." He is "like a stupid fellow, so confused does he feel. Ordinary men are enlightened; he is obscure and troubled in mind. Like the sea, he is forgotten and driven about like one who has no certain resting place.
Cynthia's whole manner was more quiet than it had been, when the weight of her unpleasant secret rested on her mind, and made her alternately despondent or flighty. 'After all, said Cynthia, 'there's a look of home about these rooms which is very pleasant. But I wish I could see you looking stronger, mamma; that's the only unpleasant thing. Molly, why didn't you send for me?
The English centre on Mont Saint Jean is giving way at last, he is told. "The beginning of retreat!" he cries. And he, who had been anxious at Austerlitz, despondent at Marengo, is gay and happy and brimming full of hope. "De Marmont," he calls to his faithful friend, "De Marmont, go ride to Paris now; tell them that victory is ours!
"The scamp!" he said, "to leave me just when I wanted help after all the years I've slaved to feed him and clothe him, see what thanks I get! but, mark my word, he'll be glad to come back yet." But Mother would never say anything against Dan. The weather continued dry. The wheat did n't come up, and Dad became despondent again. The storekeeper called every week and reminded Dad of his promise.
We have six miles to walk to our carriage my kingdom for a pony! but we must trudge along the guide, shikari, and syce trailing away behind. They are rather tired, and the writer rather despondent.
Whenever she caught herself indulging in a despondent mood, she took herself severely to task for repining at a lot which might have lacked this element of brightness, and which lacking that, would, it seemed to her, have been too dreary for human endurance. No useful purpose would be served by lingering over this portion of the narrative.
Her fine form and colour were impaired, she was nervous and despondent; and a suffering, sickly wife was quite out of Roland's calculations and very much out of his sympathies. Poverty had a bad effect upon him.
Can you keep up heart now, little despondent?" She clasped her hands over that wildly-throbbing heart, still not quite sure that she heard aright. "You are to keep all this a profound secret," said the Doctor, "until I can make my suspicions certainties. They say women cannot keep a secret is it true?" "I will do whatever you tell me. Oh, thank Heaven! thank Heaven for this!"
They might stay and search for weeks without much chance of success. The fresh snow destroyed their only hope, and they gathered round the fire for supper, a gloomy and despondent party. The facts, indeed, were sad enough, for Défago had a wife at Rat Portage, and his earnings were the family's sole means of support.
He sang: he never acknowledged a trouble, he dispersed it; and in her present wrestle with the scheme of a large country estate involving new intimacies, anxieties, the courtship of rival magnates, followed by the wretched old cloud, and the imposition upon them to bear it in silence though they knew they could plead a case, at least before charitable and discerning creatures or before heaven, the despondent lady could have asked whether he was perfectly sane.
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