She knew that by her he must have come towhatever hopefulness he had; and she would give him freedom that she might see his face no more!

That presentiment had for the moment corrupted my natural hopefulness.

Her sunny nature diffused a bright hopefulness throughout the sick chamber, until Evadne would lie in a dreamy content, almost fancying herself back in the old home as she listened to the musical tones and watched the dusky hands which so deftly ministered to her comfort.

But there is an insiduous foe, silent in its progress, sapping first the secret springs of life, but yet diffusing hopefulness, ever whispering in syren voice, of coming health and happiness, often adding a deeper crimson to the cheek and a brighter lustre to the eye.

" "You may be mistaken," replied Nizza, expressing a hopefulness, which her looks belied; "it may be the Earl of Craven.

Crushed by no disappointments, wearied out by no delays, the prophets maintain an indomitable hopefulness; their voices the carollings of the birds that greet the dawn of day: Sing, O Heavens; and be joyful, O earth; And break forth into singing, O mountains.

Giles was full of hope, which was all the stronger because Valentine did not himself manifest that unreasonable hopefulness which in a consumptive patient often increases as strength declines.

But eminent reformers have been now for more than seven years going about the walls of the Social Jericho, blowing their own trumpets and shoutingwith such small result beyond incidental displays of ill-temper within, that it is hard to recover the fine hopefulness of those departed days.

" The Clarks and the Smiths all shared Stanley's hopefulness, for it did indeed seem wonderful that he should have found the missing evidence after so many weeks of failure by the professional detective, and, if he had traced one step, why not the next?

It had not tempered its hopefulness.