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He was certainly rather weak in the legs; there wasn't much of his eloquence left! They quickly lost interest and began to talk together in undertones; there came only a little desultory applause here and there from the corners. Pelle felt the disappointment and indifference, and smiled. He no longer had need of storms of approbation; he listened for it now within himself.
And his silence and apparent estrangement lay upon Janetta's heart like lead. Poor Janetta was going through a time of depression and disappointment. Mrs. Colwyn had had two or three terrible relapses, and her condition could no longer be kept quite a secret from her friends.
Goodyear listened carefully to his statements, forgot all about his disappointment in failing to sell his improved inflating apparatus, and went home firmly convinced that he had found his true mission in life.
All in all, therefore, it seemed to her that the Mexican ranch offered her the safest asylum. She had counted upon seeing Dave during her stay in Brownsville, and her failure to do so was a grave disappointment.
Stafford's face showed a sudden disappointment. "Shucks!" he returned, unable to keep the regret from his voice. "Ain't things suited you here?" The stray-man grinned with straight lips. He could not let the manager know his secret. "Things have suited me mighty well," he declared. "I'm thankin' you for havin' made things pleasant for me while I've been here.
Grief and horror next to frenzy at a disappointment thus unexpected, and thus peremptory, rose in the face of Mrs Delvile, who, striking her hand upon her forehead, cried, "My brain is on fire!" and rushed out of the room.
The master, Mimer, sheathed his sword, and walked slowly down the hillside to the plain, where his friends welcomed him with glad cheers and shouts of joy. But the Burgundians, baffled, and feeling vexed, turned silently homeward, nor cast a single look back to the scene of their disappointment and their ill-fated champion's defeat.
The poor old creature was overflowing with gratitude, and her fervent outpouring of thanks and blessings almost made Elsie forget her disappointment for the time.
'Behave like a man, said Ulick; 'don't disgrace yourself in that way. The boy coloured, and choking with passion and disappointment, and straining against Ulick's hold of his shoulder.
So it is that the young man is generally dissatisfied with the position in which he finds himself, whatever it may be; he ascribes his disappointment solely to the state of things that meets him on his first introduction to life, when he had expected something very different; whereas it is only the vanity and wretchedness of human life everywhere that he is now for the first time experiencing.
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