The third, a "Jeune Mère," hanging disconsolate over a clayey and puffy baby with a face like an unwholesome full moon.
And she majestically walked to and fro along their disconsolate and impatient line, like a little Bonaparte in a mouse-coloured silk gown.
The wind was wailing at the windows; it had wailed all day; but, as night deepened, it took a new tone—an accent keen, piercing, almost articulate to the ear; a plaint, piteous and disconsolate to the nerves, trilled in every gust.
" But we of little faith had already lost that little, and it was a very disconsolate group which the Awkward Man presently joined.
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.
