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And it was not the memory of the deed itself that made me now ashamed, but the memory of those tears and of how I had repelled her. Through the intervening years I had tried never to think of this painful episode, and, with two little boys playing at my knee, had well nigh forgotten the first child that had come. Mention of the dead and buried past now made me resentful.
His head sank. "I am ashamed to defend it," he answered. I pressed him without mercy. "You own yourself," I said, "that it was a rascally action?" "Use stronger language against me, even than that, sir I deserve it." "In plain words," I went on, "you can find no excuse for your conduct?" "In the past time," he said, "I might have found excuses." "But you can't find them now?"
It was setting a bad example to all the neighborhood by which Mrs. Knight meant the rival school, Miss Miller having just sent over a little girl, with her compliments, to ask if any one was hurt, and could she do anything? which was naturally aggravating! Mrs. Knight hoped they were sorry; she thought they must be sorry and ashamed. The exercises could now go on as usual.
"Well, they do say there's a wild man around here," declared Joe, in a half hesitating way; for he was actually ashamed to expose his belief in supernatural things for fear of being laughed at. "Let Mr. Wild Man come around; who cares?" sang out Bobolink.
He seemed even thankful for the information given him; and declared himself ashamed that such abuses, unknowingly to him, had crept into his administration. The latter broke prison and escaped. * Franklyn, p. 51. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 25. Franklyn, p. 52. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 27.
They appeared to be ashamed not in the least by telling such a lie at a farewell dinner. Particularly, Red Shirt, of these three, praised Hubard Squash in lavish terms. He went so far as to declare that to lose this true friend was a great personal loss to him.
Body o' me, it makes a man sick of his kind, ashamed to belong to the race of men, to see the envy that abounds in this here sublunary wale of tears!" said the Corporal, lifting up his eyes. Peter stared at him with open mouth; the hypocritical rascal continued, after a pause,
Cicero likewise, though he had written and advised otherwise, yet was ashamed not to be accounted in the number of those that would hazard their lives and fortunes for the safeguard of their country.
These allusions were always well received, and he found that the great bulk of the nobles of the empire were indignant and ashamed at the conduct of the emperor in imprisoning his illustrious rival. The secret of his prison place, however, appeared to have been so well kept that no information whatever was obtainable.
I murmured something about wishing there was anything I could do, and I did feel ashamed. 'I'm afraid there will not be much for you actually to do, said grandmamma, 'and I don't think you need warning to be very quiet in a house with an invalid.