As we have already taken the liberty of putting the thoughts of his betters into words, we must now do so for him; and, if he had expressed his thoughts in his own vernacular as he rubbed the hack's ears in the stable, his speech would have been much as follows:- "How cums it as I be all changed like, as tho' sum un had tuk and rubbed all the downheartedness out o' me?
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
Mr. Southwode's detail, while it interested her terribly, and in a sort nattered her, also reduced her to a very low feeling of downheartedness.
"A Letter of Credit"
Susan Warner
Fortune once more takes us into her good graces, and we are scarcely able to understand our past downheartedness in view of the new happiness to which we have fallen heirs.
"The Moral Instruction of Children"
Felix Adler