Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity--to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.
Les réunions au dehors avaient perdu de leur animation tandis qu’a la maison les gémissements de sa mere et de ses sours sur le manque de distractions ôtaient tout agrément au cercle familial.