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Again, momentarily thrust back into himself, he wondered jealously once more what the disillusionments had been of that experience from before which she seemed, at times, ready to draw back a little the veil. "A sense of futility is a sense of incompleteness," he said, "and generally precedes a sense of power." "Ah, you have gained that!
After the disillusionments she had suffered she actually was beginning to think that he, too, would fail her in the crucial moment, when, at last, the portières parted, and Derby entered carrying the celebrated Sansevero Madonna! The princess and the marchese were so astonished that only Nina seemed to notice Derby himself. With a cry of "Jack!
She was the actress his whim had chosen to play a passive part.... It was one of the most educational disillusionments in Ann Veronica's career. But did many women get anything better? This afternoon, when she was urgent to explain her hampering and tainting complication with Ramage, the realization of this alien quality in her relationship with Manning became acute.
He had hoped great things of Bill Siddall's wine-cellar this despite an almost unbroken series of bitter disillusionments and disappointments in experience with those who had the wealth to buy, if they had had the taste to select, the fine wines he loved. So, resolving to indulge himself, he had put into his bag his pair of gout-boots.
At such moments I feel strong enough to face the approach of my thirtieth year, to await with serenity disillusionments, white hairs, sorrows. infirmities, and old age, my mind's eye fixed upon a far-off point of light that seems to grow larger as I advance.
I had faithfully promised to try to love my husband and I prepared to do so. Did not love require that a wife should look up to and respect and even reverence the man she had married? I made up my mind to do that by shutting my eyes to my husband's obvious faults and seeing only his better qualities. What disappointments were in store for me! What crushing and humiliating disillusionments!
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