I smiled, for his appearance, so rotund and yet so startled, could never fail to excite a smile, and then as I came nearer I noticed that he seemed singularly disconsolate.
" Disconsolate, Soapy ceased his unavailing racket.
" On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very weary, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: "I must have made a mistake; my father, after all, could have been only an ass.
The coffin was carried to the grave, and the disconsolate mother sat with her young daughters.
On the day of the funeral, Harlequin was not required to show himself on the boards, for he was a disconsolate widower.
