He had argued, pleaded, rebuked, and ignored by turns; and always and through all he had prayed--earnestly,
hopefully. But to-day miserably he was forced to own that matters were no better, but rather worse.
But ere her commander, who, with trumpet to mouth, stood up in his boat; ere he could
hopefully hail, Ahab's voice was heard.
It would be best to dismiss the subject for the present, and to wait
hopefully till the summer came.
"You will allow me," he said
hopefully, "to walk a little way with you?"
"An' I ain't goin' to butt in," he added
hopefully. "You just watch 'm for himself."
"I thought," went on Chunk
hopefully, "that if I had one of them powders to give Rosy when I see her at supper to-night it might brace her up and keep her from reneging on the proposition to skip.
It is the shadow of pain which touches the young face with such pathetic patience, but Beth seldom complains and always speaks
hopefully of `being better soon'.
The door stood open, and a woman and a girl of fourteen ran out and looked up at us
hopefully. A little girl trailed along behind them.
Hopefully, but a moment ago, as Hester had spoken of drowning it in the deep sea, there was a sense of inevitable doom upon her as she thus received back this deadly symbol from the hand of fate.
"Don't fear," said his wife,
hopefully. "The good Lord would not have brought us so far, if he didn't mean to carry us through.
When we gradually fell into keeping late hours and late company, I noticed that he looked about him with a desponding eye at breakfast-time; that he began to look about him more
hopefully about mid-day; that he drooped when he came into dinner; that he seemed to descry Capital in the distance rather clearly, after dinner; that he all but realized Capital towards midnight; and that at about two o'clock in the morning, he became so deeply despondent again as to talk of buying a rifle and going to America, with a general purpose of compelling buffaloes to make his fortune.
These I made up into bales, and stored them into a safe place upon the beach, and then waited
hopefully for the passing of a ship.