Despair
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On him alone, then, she concentrated all the various hatreds that resulted from her boredom, and every effort to diminish only augmented it; for this useless trouble was added to the other reasons for despair, and contributed still more to the separation between them.
As on the return from Vaubyessard, when the quadrilles were running in her head, she was full of a gloomy melancholy, of a numb
despair.
The memory of you drives me to
despair.
Yet don't
despair.
She fell back in
despair.
He called Monsieur Canivet into consultation; he sent for Dr. Lariviere, his old master, from Rouen; he was in
despair.
But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the
despair
of all desire.
Leon watched the clock in
despair.
tears now!""You are driving me to despair!""What do I care?" said he, shutting the door.
He was in despair, was calling out.
The sweetness of this sensation deepened his sadness; he felt his whole being dissolving in
despair
at the thought that he must lose her, just when she was confessing more love for him than ever.
Perhaps there was no need to despair, he thought.
Upon one fit of
despair
followed another, and even others, inexhaustible as the waves of an overflowing sea.
And Charles stood, motionless and staring, in the very same place where, long ago, Emma, in despair, and paler even than he, had thought of dying.
She seemed but the more beautiful to him for this; he was seized with a lasting, furious desire for her, that inflamed his despair, and that was boundless, because it was now unrealisable.
She could not hold out against the torrent of happiness which now poured into her heart after all those days of
despair.
Julien's tears and
despair
distressed her greatly.
In
despair
at what she thought she could discern, and seeing that her wise counsel was becoming hateful to a woman who had positively lost her head, she left Vergy without offering an explanation for which she was not asked.
At length he made his escape, and hastened to inform Madame de Renal, whom he found in
despair.
This great sacrifice made, I hope that in public I shall have the courage to think of my reputation.'Julien had been expecting
despair.
M. de Renal, seeing the imminence of a pecuniary sacrifice, was in greater
despair
than his wife.
Some time later, when I was in despair, the respectable M. Chelan came to see me.
Those lovely eyes, in which was revealed the most profound boredom, and, what was worse still, a
despair
of finding any pleasure, came to rest upon Julien.
'A sermon, from you!Are you thinking of asking to be made a Prefect?'Mathilde very soon forgot the annoyance of the Comte de Caylus, Norbert's ill humour and the silent
despair
of M. de Croisenois.
Julien, locked and double-locked in his room, was a prey to the most violent
despair.
Harrowing doubt, bewilderment, despair, seized upon him by turns during this luncheon, which seemed to him to be everlasting.
All the pleasures in life are as nothing to him, he can feel only the sharp points of the
despair
that is rending him.
He required all his natural energy to keep himself from sinking into
despair.
Often, at night, as he crossed the vast courtyard of the Hotel de Fervaques, it was only by force of character and reason that he succeeded in keeping himself from sinking into
despair.
'I conquered
despair
at the Seminary,' he said to himself: 'and yet what an appalling prospect I had before me then!
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