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"There now," he cried, "there's something for the old duke to see to-morrow morning; that's about all that's left of me that's my skeleton, Wellingborough. But come, don't be downhearted; there's a little more gold yet in Golconda; I have a guinea or two left.
It is hardly to be wondered at that soldiers in trenches become discouraged at times, and on this occasion, when an unquenchably cheerful voice shouted over an adjoining traverse, "Wot che'r, lads! Are we downhearted?" a growling chorus answered with an unmistakable, We were in an open ditch. The rain was beating down on our faces.
I'd like to know who you'd think would want to sign up on this craft that even the rats have deserted?" "Never mind, Ira. Don't be downhearted," Prudence said, now recovered from her excitement. "Perhaps the Lord has something good in store for us." Cap'n Ira pursed his lips. "I ain't doubting the Lord's stores is plentiful," he returned rather irreverently.
One must feel very badly indeed not to be a little more cheerful when Tommy Tit is about. The fact is, Tommy Tit packs about so much good cheer in that small person of his, that no one can be downhearted when he is about. "Hello, Tommy," said Happy Jack. "If I could make other people feel as good as you do, do you know what I would do?" "What?" asked Tommy.
About this time the valet of a great foreign duke, who happened to be also staying in the neighbourhood, and himself a foreigner, came to me one day when I was very downhearted, and asked me to come over to the great house where he was staying and drink a bottle of Rhine wine with him. I went, and he showed me your advertisement, and told me he thought it would be a good thing for me.
It's truth I tell, that in spite of the victory of the night before I walked to the Temple rather downhearted.
"'Do not you be frightened or downhearted, Mrs. Dr. dear, she said gently. 'I felt somewhat that way myself last night, and I rose from my bed and lighted my lamp and opened my Bible; and what do you think was the first verse my eyes lighted upon?
It was toward evening, and his reverence still paced the corridor, downhearted at opposition and wickedness, but not without hope, and full of lovely and charitable wishes for all his flock, when the melancholy Fry suddenly came out of a prisoner's cell radiant with joy. "What is amiss?" asked the chaplain.
I'd hit out in all directions, neatly too, and so I'd put an end to it. Damn them! Don't be downhearted. It's a shame!" "He really has put it well, though," Raskolnikov thought. "Damn them? But the cross-examination again, to-morrow?" he said with bitterness. "Must I really enter into explanations with them?
The winding up of the last chapter of this history, with its sad incidents, deaths and burials, was unavoidable, but it shall not occur again. The true historian has got to get in all the particulars. I think I never felt quite as downhearted as I did the day or two after the skirmish, when our boys were killed.
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