Both Uses of
desolate
in
Mansfield Park
- Here am I, a poor desolate widow, deprived of the best of husbands, my health gone in attending and nursing him, my spirits still worse, all my peace in this world destroyed, with hardly enough to support me in the rank of a gentlewoman, and enable me to live so as not to disgrace the memory of the dear departed—what possible comfort could I have in taking such a charge upon me as Fanny?
Chpt 3desolate = miserable
- And in a lower tone to Fanny, "I shall have only a desolate house to hurry from."
Chpt 28 *desolate = sad and lonely
Definition:
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(desolate as in: felt desolate) sad or miserable--and often lonely