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Here is that child Amy, in her ugly old shabby dress, which she was so obstinate about, Pa, which I over and over again begged and prayed her to change, and which she over and over again objected to, and promised to change to-day, saying she wished to wear it as long as ever she remained in there with you which was absolutely romantic nonsense of the lowest kind here is that child Amy disgracing us to the last moment and at the last moment, by being carried out in that dress after all.
Just reflect on her treatment of me and how I have humbled myself and whined at her feet. And I ask what may we not expect of such a creature? Is it that she wants to be different from anyone else? Let me tell you one thing: The woman who seeks to be strongly individualized may attain her aim, but it leads to a sacrifice of her modesty. I say she is in danger of disgracing herself." Mrs.
It was well, for the slightest noise would have brought his heart into his mouth, and he would have been in great danger of scaring the household, and for ever disgracing himself, with a shriek. Yet he longed to hear something stir. Oh! for the stamp of a horse from the stable or the low of a cow from the byre!
He, not content, as Sir Alfred Gaselee was, with keeping his own men from disgracing their country's flag, wrote a letter of remonstrance to Count Waldersee, and received a snub in return for an action which, nevertheless, redounds immensely to his credit. Christianity in China has received a staggering blow, from which it will not recover during the lives of the present generation.
And she herself, though she answered him briskly, almost with impertinence, was so little mistress of herself that she knew not what she said. She would take him now, if only she knew how to take him without disgracing herself in her own estimation. "Dear Clary, think of it. Try to love me. I need not tell you again how true is my love for you."
"Don't you see everybody staring at us?" continued Dud, wrathfully. "To be shouting at dirty little beggars like those and disgracing us all!" "Disgracing you?" echoed Dan. "Yes," said Dud, still hot with pride and rage. "And there are the Fosters on the upper deck, people I know. Come, Jim, let's cut off before they see us with this low-down chump."
I found my disposition soured, and the spark of revenge kindling in my bosom; and I am persuaded that this method of disgracing youth, instead of eradicating vice, serves only to nurture those rancorous feelings which irritation, arising from a sense of degradation, is sure to excite, and which, in the young mind, might, by a more judicious and conciliatory treatment, be either totally repressed in their birth, or at least easily extinguished.
'You are disgracing yourself, he said to her with the same intensity, fast and low, under his breath, so as to be heard only by her. 'How can you expose yourself as a model to these men whom you never saw before? Let them find their own models; they are a pack of brutes! But even as he spoke he shrank before the concentrated wrath of her face. 'I will make you pay for it! she said.
And do you know" he dropped out the words with emphasis "that I don't know a word of German and I can't talk to a Frenchman for half an hour without disgracing myself. There that's how we're governed!" He stood staring at her with his bright large eyes amused, yet strangely detached as though he had very little to do with what he was talking about.
"Ah, what indeed!" said the Marquise, smiling. "And will you not tell me?" "You shall know it at the proper time." "Finally, I swear to you that I suspect neither of you I neither suspect you of wronging me of disgracing me nor of soiling my name . . . God help me!
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