“Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.”
“He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed.”
“Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.”
“And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.”
“Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.”
“Hope had stolen into his life just as he was growing comfortable with despair.”