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She imagined that he had ceased to love her, and she was almost in despair: which roused in her a feeling of peculiar excitement.
Your fault!' she exclaimed with tears of despair and spite in her voice, and rose.
Again, as on the previous occasion, he suddenly, without the least interval, felt thrown from the height of happiness, peace, and dignity into an abyss of despair, malevolence, and degradation.
The old Marshal was in despair and could not hide it.
Mirth, sadness, despair, tenderness, triumph came forth without any cause, like the thoughts of a madman.
'But what is it all about?' he said, horrified at her expression of despair, and again leaning toward her he took her hand and kissed it.
I am ready to do anything to make you happy,' he went on, touched by her despair.
She was in despair.
Look at her, see that her heart was torn by despair, and go out in silence with that calmly indifferent look?
And again hope and despair, alternately chafing the old sores, lacerated the wounds of her tortured and violently fluttering heart.
For a moment Oblonsky's face looked sad, but a minute later when, with a slight spring in his step and smoothing his whiskers, he entered the waiting-room where Vronsky was, Oblonsky had quite forgotten how he had sobbed with despair over his sister's corpse, and he saw in Vronsky only a hero and an old friend.
Dolly was in despair; she hated her husband, despised him, pitied him, made up her mind to divorce him and to refuse; but ended by consenting to sell part of her estate.
CHAPTER XWHEN LEVIN THOUGHT about what he was and why he lived, he could find no answer and was driven to despair; but when he left off asking himself those questions he seemed to know what he was and why he lived, for he acted and lived unfalteringly and definitely – recently even more unfalteringly than before.
His despair returned.
And Maheu was in despair; another piece of ill-luck; one of the best of his putters gone without any chance of replacing her at once.
He tore himself to pieces, got off the rails, and was reduced to despair.
He shrugged his shoulders with despair, and again bit at his bread and butter.
In his wounded vanity he experienced real despair.
The Company, who had done everything to buy up the property placed within its vast territory, was in despair over this inn in the open fields, at the very entrance of the Voreux.
Then he became confused, spoke of a debt of two francs which had reduced his family to despair.
On the way there had been a great explanation, and Maheude had resigned herself to Zacharie's marriage, in despair at the loss of her eldest son's wages, but overcome by the thought that she could not hold it back any longer without injustice.
And the Maheus left the table with hearts ill at ease and in despair.
In fact, Pluchart, in despair at the suspicion which the International aroused among the miners at Montsou, was hoping to see them enter in a mass if they were forced to fight against the Company.
The pikeman made a gesture of despair.
Then the coarse face of this man hardened to work in the mines became swollen with despair, and large tears broke from his eyes and fell in a warm rain.
He was seized with the fury of despair, and could only utter oaths:"My God! my God! my God!"Catherine, Lydie, and Mouquette, who had also rushed up, began to sob and shriek with terror in the midst of the fearful disorder, which was increased by the darkness.
The captain, Richomme, had come up running, in despair that neither Négrel, the engineer, nor Dansaert was at the pit.
When, in the evening, Maheude learnt that her man was one of them, she was in despair, and asked him if he wanted them to be thrown on the street.
Maheude made a gesture of despair.
And she did not blush with shame; she only quivered like this at being treated like a slut before this lad, whose presence oppressed her to despair.
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