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Updated: May 4, 2025
She had left the building in a vortex of conflicting emotions, with the call of duty and of honour ringing through a thousand other voices of temptation and desire, the inner pleadings for a little happiness while yet she was young. After she married Meydon, there had only been a few short weeks of joy before her black disillusion came, and she had realised how bitter must be her martyrdom.
How excessively grotesque to tie all those parcels to the branches, in order to take them off again! Surely, something less medieval, more ingenious, more modern than this could be devised if symbolism is to be indulged in at all! Can you devise it, O sceptical one, revelling in disillusion? Can you invent a symbol more natural and graceful than the symbol of the Tree?
A few days after he had heard the news he repeated the adventure of his boyhood; for the second time he scaled the steep hillside, and penetrated the matted brake. He expected violent disillusion, but his feeling was rather astonishment at the activity of boyish imagination.
His first moment of disillusion came on the day that his aunt informed him, with considerable asperity, that his pretty cousin was not a person to be mentioned in their circle the reason given that "she was not yet out," sounding rather flimsy even to his trusting ears.
To throw away a life's happiness for a spoiled, petulant woman was another. It was too high a price to pay. Mingled with her depression was pity for Clayton; for all the years that he had lived with this woman: and pride in him, that he had never betrayed his disillusion. After a time she saw the car waiting, and she went slowly back to the house.
It means the bearing of a frightful burden of the past, trials and tribulations, weary experience, disillusion of mind and heart, all the ferment of immemorial life, at the bottom of which is a bitter deposit of irony and boredom.... Boredom, the immense boredom of the Semites, which has nothing in common with our Aryan boredom, though that, too, makes us suffer; while it is at least traceable to definite causes, and vanishes when those causes cease to exist: for in most cases it is only the result of regret that we cannot have what we want.
She felt like a financier before a coup. She felt like a commander who sees the enemy waver. For this night triumph seemed at hand, through some means which the heat of her brain did not allow her to analyse, but only to relish with exultation. x In the morning Sally had a heavy head as the result of her unusual entertainment, and she awoke to a sense of disillusion.
Marcella stood thinking, her mind travelling hither and thither with lightning speed, now over the social events of the last six weeks now over incidents of those long-past holidays. Was this, indeed, the second volume beginning the natural sequel to those old mysterious histories of shrinking, disillusion, and repulse?
And it is meet and right, at such a point as this, to lay our offering, modest, secret, shy a shadow, a nothing at the feet of this gracious Alma Mater; "who needs not June for Beauty's heightening!" One revolts against her sometimes. The charm is too exclusive, too withdrawn. And something what shall I say? of ironic, supercilious disillusion makes her forehead weary, and her eyelids heavy.
For though she had come to him of her own accord for that one blessed minute at dawn, he could not be sure what had moved her so deeply. She was treading a world primeval, the wonder of it still in her soft eyes. Would she waken to love or to disillusion? He took care to see that she did not tire. Presently he stopped and held out his hand to say good-bye.
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