Hold fast to one thing, don't let one thing go--hope." "Hope, hope," he answered scornfully.
"To hope no longer," cried Maria, "means to despair.

To despair means in our case to open the gates, to open the gates means--" "Who is thinking of opening the gates?
Who talks of surrender ?" he vehemently interrupted.

"We will still hold firm, still, still----There is the portfolio, take it to the messenger.".