If any further evidence were needed to show the utter collapse of the dwindling, discouraged convention, the dejected, despairing appearance of Richardson, until now supported by a bright heroism and cheery good humour, would have furnished it.
Alexander uses the appearance of a delegate to symbolize the convention's collapse.
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