Sentence:  The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, <WSD>depressed</WSD>, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  unhappy; despondent