Mr. Garth had been so kind and encouraging at the beginning of their interview, that gratitude and hopefulness had been at a high pitch, and the downfall was proportionate.
For they actually presented the absurdity of being less than hishopefulness had decided that they must be.
Hopefulness has a pleasure in making a throw of any kind, because the prospect of success is certain; and only a more generous pleasure in offering as many as possible a share in the stake.
Fred's mind, on the other hand, was busy with an anxiety which even his ready hopefulness could not immediately quell.
Do they measure up to the standard of fortitude in the faith, self-immolation for the truth, intelligence in the Scriptures, enthusiasm in Christ, and hopefulness that has no sunset?
A wave of hopefulness and enthusiasm spread over the Church; gladness wreathed the faces that had gathered blackness, and strength throbbed in hearts that were faint.
It was bitter winter weather, but I had been too full of passion to feel cold, and I walked through the quiet streets, with the snow drifting in my face, and a desperate hopefulness in my heart.
But there was a certain hopefulness and composure of manner underlying it all, which produced so strong an impression on me that I was obliged to notice it.
But he spoke of himself and his future with a courage and hopefulness which men of twice his years (if he has suffered as I suspect him to have suffered) might have envied.
But I cannot endure this--this hopefulness of yours.
In that year of pain and sorrow, through a full surrender to the Divine Will, the hopefulness and confidence of youth came back to me.
It was a face full of light and energy, of the unquestioning hopefulness of first youth.
It was no very hard task to revive the natural hopefulness of Minna's nature.
To keep it, on the bare chance of its proving to be of some use in the future, seemed to imply either an excessive hopefulness or an extraordinary foresight, on the widow's part.
The bright sunshine and some refreshment sent a gleam of hopefulness into every breast, and the men rowed on with renewed energy.
The sublime character, the moral force, the superb hopefulness of these ideas proclaimed their Divine origin.
For the most part his inspiration is simple, but it is searching, and we perceive the triumphanthopefulness of the true prophet in the promise that the latter glory of the house of God shall be greater than the former.
There was no trace of sympathy in the cold voice, and suddenly the eager hopefulness faded out of Miss Grandis' face.
For an instant Olga hesitated, then she stood aside, but in that moment all the happy hopefulness seemed to melt out of her heart.
If not positively cheerful, there was at least hopefulness in their looks: for their renewed companionship had mutually inspired one and all with renewed hopes of deliverance.
Ben Brace knew that in the Horse Latitudes storms were of rare occurrence; and hence the hopefulness with which he was now looking forward to the future.
The fact of their having encountered each other--even when one of them had been in the act of taking measures to avoid the encounter--was of itself something to strengthen this conviction, and increase their hopefulness for the future.
The hopefulness which is an almost constant attendant on consumption, had not the effect of deceiving him as to the nature of his malady, or of making him look forward to ultimate recovery.
It would be to me a demonstration that the present position of hopefulness is not dependent on any inward strength or knowledge, but it is hope born of ignorance and superstition.
Non-co-operation is futile because people will never respond in right earnest, and reaction that might afterwards set in will be worse than the state of hopefulness we are now in.
But with the hopefulness peculiar to the disease, and especially characteristic of himself, he entertained almost to the last the expectation of recovery.
They were a comely, thrifty-looking set, and the instinctive hopefulness of their race looked from the bright eyes and shone in the cheery faces.
The hopefulnessof the situation darkened somewhat before the time for action arrived.
The quiet glow of hopefulness with which Hagar returned to Abram's encampment should possess the spirit of every one of us.
He was now the Friend of God, taken up into a new world of thoughts and hopes; hiding in his heart the treasure of God's covenant, brooding over the infinite significance and hopefulness of his position as God's ally.
Fully illumined, firmly convinced, evenly at rest upon principles that stand foursquare upon the balanced manhood of Godlike men, his civic hopefulness stood in the midst of his practical statesmanship, like an invincible, immovable throne.
And this ever-springing hopefulness and confidence is the shining efflorescence of his Godliness.
During the recital the minister's face was wonderful in its changes of expression, but at the last a kind of adoring hopefulness was the most decided.
So John went home, praying as he went, and conscious of a strange hopefulness in the midst of his grief.
For it was still the marvellous hopefulness of Cornelius, his seeming prerogative over the future, that determined, and kept alive, all other sentiment concerning him.
There were times when even the hopefulness of the physician--and hishopefulness was one of his strongest and most helpful qualities--failed him.
Jake Cheyne and his cavalry boys would save the bridge," said Flora Schuyler, with a hopefulnessshe did not feel.
It was graver than it had been a year ago, for Larry Grant had lost a good deal of his hopefulness since he heard those footsteps at the depot.
There was interest and a slight hopefulness in the tone of Clodagh's voice.
