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The Baron seemed to bring all the weight of his fortune to bear upon him, the better to humiliate him in his poverty. M. de Bargeton had counted on having no more to say, and his soul was dismayed by the pause spent by the rivals in mutual survey; he had a question which he kept for desperate emergencies, laid up in his mind, as it were, against a rainy day.
The other ladies looked at one another and moved away, so as not to humiliate me. Just at that moment someone came quickly over towards us. All could see her it was Edwarda. She came straight to me. She said something, and threw her arms round my neck; clasped her arms round my neck and kissed me again and again on the lips. Each time she said something, but I did not hear what it was.
Was it necessary, though, to put it so strongly as that, because of one night?... Ah, but that had much too fine a sound!... for the sake of one hour to humiliate her so to ruin her so was not that unscrupulous and shameless?... How she hated him!
A profound feeling of hatred entered his narrow soul, and as the days went by the one purpose of his life was to humiliate this sweet-tempered woman, who had been sacrificed simply to further the ambitious schemes of her designing father-in-law, Mr. Yin.
He was good-hearted, and had always taken the jokes patiently; but they had been jokes which did not humiliate him, did not bring him to shame; whereas, this would be a cruel one in that way, and to play it was to meddle with fire; for with all his good nature, Ed was a Southerner and the English of that was, that when he came back he would kill as many of the conspirators as he could before falling himself.
"That is, he wanted to make Braxton Wyatts out of us?" said Paul. "You put it exactly right, Paul," said Henry, "I laughed at him, and called him by the names that belonged to him. He brought in Braxton Wyatt and the soldiers and ordered me to be put in irons, there in his presence." "What!" exclaimed Paul, "did he dare that, too?" "Yes. His object, of course, was to humiliate me and all of us.
When the game is not worth the risk, one can always run away, as I did from Lavardin when the Count's death threw his men into a panic." "Good God!" I cried, giving way to my feelings; "what will move you, then? What do you wish me to do? Shall I humiliate myself to plead for my life? shall I beg mercy? If I must descend to that, I will do so."
There's nothing that you oughtn't to hear," he addressed the company, "but a great deal that you probably wouldn't understand and the last thing we desire is to humiliate you. That's so, isn't it, Carlos?" "It is," Charles quickly agreed, without a sign of self-consciousness.
"You see at least that curses do not incommode the emperor, for his power and authority are constantly on the increase. He is now going to Dresden, to see at his feet all the princes of Germany; and he will then hasten northward, to gain new victories and humiliate the only man in the world who still dares to defy him, the Emperor Alexander of Russia."
With great relief, he found that the guests were all absolute strangers to him, and that they represented society in its better sense, with no suggestion of the 'half-world' no Mrs Strangeways or Mrs. Rayner Mann. Alma, equally conscious of the fact, viewed it as a calculated insult. Sibyl had brought her here to humiliate her.
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