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Dates and other particulars were liberally supplied, and the name and address of the captain of the team were given. Altogether, the letter was discouragingly convincing, and neither the coaches, the captain, nor the athletic officers really doubted the truth of the charge. Professor Nast, the chairman of the Athletic Committee, blinked gravely through his glasses and looked about the room.
She smiled not discouragingly and seated herself on a tiny sofa in the corner, a curiously impregnable intrenchment, as I noted for my impulse was to carry her by storm. I was astonished at my own audacity; I was wondering where my fear of her had gone, my awe of her superior fineness and breeding. "Mama will be down in a few minutes," she said.
The old immemorial goal of human endeavor was exalted, and the everlasting incentives were filled with the freshness of a divine life. Thus the religious Jew, when Christ came, was like a convalescent patient. The process of recovery was going on, but in a way that was discouragingly slow.
He cut the babiche threads with his knife, unfolded the sheets of paper and began to read, while Tavish's mice nosed slyly out of their murky corners wondering at the new and sudden stillness in the cabin and, it may be, stirred into restlessness by the absence of their master. The ground under the snow was discouragingly hard.
There were five other girls with her, and spread over the couch, chairs, and table were writing material and papers. "We're frightfully busy, girls," Charity said, discouragingly. "What do you want?" "Just to look at your room. Isn't it inspiring, Kit? This is Kit Robbins, Charity." "Hope you'll like it at Hope." Charity gave Kit her hand with a warm grip.
His eyes constantly wandered away from their faces to the passers-by. He had the look of a man ever on the alert, ever on the watch waiting and watching for some one he could not see. Miss Howard had never seen him before, but from the depths of her heart she pitied him. Sorrow, such as rarely falls to the lot of man, had fallen to this man, she knew. He was discouragingly absent and distrait.
The month of December dragged discouragingly, however, and when the time really did arrive to pack and be off for the Christmas holidays the latent energy that suddenly developed for packing trunks and making calls caused the faculty to sigh with regret that it had not been used in the pursuit of knowledge. Nothing of any event had happened at Wayne Hall.
My dinner that day consisted of two ring-shaped rolls which I bought in a Jewish grocery-store and which I ate on a bench in Tompkins Square The day passed most discouragingly. It was about 7 o'clock when, disheartened to the point of despair, I dragged my wearied limbs in the direction of my "factory." When I got there I found my partner waiting for me not alone, but in the company of his wife
My hopes were dashed in a moment, but I made another effort. 'Do you think, sir, said I, 'if I were to mention it to Mr. Jorkins Mr. Spenlow shook his head discouragingly. 'Heaven forbid, Copperfield, he replied, 'that I should do any man an injustice: still less, Mr. jorkins. But I know my partner, Copperfield. Mr. jorkins is not a man to respond to a proposition of this peculiar nature.
That night, Weary rode home beside Happy Jack and tried to lift him out of the slough of despond. But Happy refused to budge, mentally, an inch. He rode humped in the saddle like a calf in its first blizzard, and he was discouragingly unresponsive; except once, when Weary reminded him that the tableau would need no rehearsing and that it would only last a minute, anyway, and wouldn't hurt.
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