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Updated: June 29, 2025
He went out, holding himself very erect and looking very cheerful until he reached the corner. There however he slumped, and it was a rather despondent young man who stood sometime later, on the center of the deserted bridge over the small river, and surveyed the water with moody eyes. In the dusky living-room Nina was speaking her mind. "You treat him like a dog," she said.
It was his theory that a man would need the moccasins for clinging to the rocks." "It's a queer notion," said Bentley reflectively. "Do you think " she began, halting her words again and looking at him with distended eyes. "There's no telling what a man might do when desperate and despondent," he answered.
In his most despondent moments he ceased to believe that he would ever be able to shake her off. She haunted him, asleep or awake, at his meals and at his books, in his quiet lodging or when he stole out for a solitary walk.
The causal verb karayate may be taken as equivalent to karoti. I follow Nilakantha in rendering the second line. The sense is clear, viz., that one should not fall away from the practice of Yoga, tempted by the puissance that Yoga brings. Telang renders the line 'one practising concentration should never become despondent. I think, Nilakantha is right.
This was not what she had expected to hear. Never in her most despondent moods had she believed it possible that Arthur Saville would advocate her marriage with another; never had she believed that he could listen unmoved to such a suggestion! The pain at her heart forced her into speech, and the words faltered forth with unconscious self- betrayal. "No, I could never love him. It's impossible!
I hear you have a vacancy for a manager." "Nothing of the sort. I am manager." Hope drew back despondent, and his haggard countenance fell at such prompt repulse. But he summoned courage, and, once more acting genial confidence, returned to the attack. "But you don't know, sir, in how many ways I can be useful to you.
She saw during the day several faces that she knew, but none recognized her, and she realized how soon we are forgotten by our wide circle of friends, and how the world goes on just the same after we have vacated the large space we suppose we occupy. She reached home in the twilight, weary and despondent.
"You do not mind," he whispered, "if I tell you that you must not stay here any longer?" He led her toward the door. Upon the threshold he took her cold fingers into his hand and kissed them reverently. "Do not be too despondent," he said. "I have a star somewhere which burns for me. Tonight I have been looking for it. It is there still," he added, pointing to the wide open window.
My wrath against the bridegroom is somewhat calmed by finding that it is considered bad luck if he does not get tipsy at his wedding." Those readers of Miss Procter's poems who should suppose from their tone that her mind was of a gloomy or despondent cast, would be curiously mistaken. She was exceedingly humorous, and had a great delight in humour.
He became pensive and downcast; never joined any of our parties, and gradually grew quite a useless member of the corporation. To add to his melancholy, he was one morning present at the execution of an unfortunate associate of ours: this made a deep impression upon him; from that moment, he became thoroughly moody and despondent.
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