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Such remuneration was, she thought, as honourable as the Doctor's income; but to her American intelligence, the acceptance of a present of money from a Marchioness would have been a degradation. It certainly was said of her by some persons that there must have been something in her former life of which she was ashamed. The Honourable Mrs.

It was monstrous that she should be subjected to such indignities. And then that cruel old pagan of a father was he not ashamed of himself to see the results of his own cold-blooded theories? Was this the glory of art? Was this the reward of the sacrifice of a life? That a sensitive girl should be publicly insulted by a tipsy maniac, and jeered at by a brutal crowd?

Heathcote came back by way of New England and from there went down into Maryland and Virginia, where, according to "a member of the Canadian Parliament," lands were to be had for a song. "A fortnight? I could spend a twelve-month there," exclaimed she. "Had it not been that I was ashamed to insist upon being let off this journey, I should have stopped there as it was."

"Is it likely that I shall give my consent to your marrying a young man picked up nobody knows where out of the gutter, most likely? Who are his people, I should like to know?" "I daresay his father is as well connected as mine," answered Beatrice, who knew all about her mother's having married a parvenu. "Beatrice, I am ashamed of you, sneering at your own father!"

'It is fit for all the world, your worship; with your honour's good leave, and will, I answered in humility, being still ashamed of it; 'when it happens so to people, there is nothing that can stop it, sir.

When I do drink I like to share with a friend; and I don't care how humble that friend is." "Hurrah! more power. That's true too, Roger; may you never be without a drop to wet your whistle." "They say I'm the last new baronet. Well, I ain't ashamed of that; not a bit. When will Mr Moffat get himself made a baronet? No man can truly say I'm too proud of it.

But there was a rugged practical side to the character of Roger Gale, and the next morning he was ashamed of the brooding thoughts which had come in the night. He shook them off as morbid, and resolutely set himself to what lay close before him. There was work to be done on Bruce's affairs, and the work was a decided relief.

When they get hold of a subject and believe it needs elaboration, you may know that it has a lodgment with the people. Nor can we ignore the fact that this feeling has been increased by indignation at the political and social corruption incident to our enormous material development. The people have become ashamed of it in a sense.

On my word, I should be ashamed Poor devil!" "Multiply him by three or four hundred thousand, and be a statesman," said Ramel. Vaudrey bowed to the workman, who rose quickly and returned his salute with timid eagerness, and the minister went rapidly down the stairs of the little house and jumped into his carriage, making haste to get away.

Celia felt the tears rising, and she left Miss Betty with an abruptness that made her ashamed of herself as she recalled it. After the exertion of climbing the hill she stopped to rest on the rustic seat just inside her own gate. "I wonder," she asked herself, "if there is anything much harder to bear than seeing a house you love going to ruin and not to be able to save it."