Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.
– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 42. Elizabeth had been looking forward to Wickham leaving Meryton. But when his regiment finally departs, her expectations are not met and it doesn’t bring her the satisfaction she had hoped.