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What could I say? He would not listen to me, and even my tears seemed only to irritate him. That day was the beginning of my great sorrows. Not long after, he reproached me for my undue familiarity all unbecoming a gentlewoman with his grooms. I had been in the stable-yard, laughing and talking, he said.
Recent disclosures, which have shown that Lord Aberdeen's Ministry was not rightly reproached with "drifting" idly and recklessly into this disastrous contest, have also helped to clear the English commander's memory from the slur of inefficiency so liberally flung on him at the time, while it has been shown that his action was seriously hampered by the French generals with whom he had to co-operate.
This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 22. Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.... 28.
"Can't you understand," she objected firmly, "that this is my business dress, just as much as a black frock and high collar would be in an office?" He gave a short, gentle laugh. "I don't know what you're laughing at, dad," she reproached him, not unkindly. "Anyhow, I'm glad some one's come at last. I was beginning to think that my home had forgotten all about me.
When her mother reproached her with it, she did not deny it, but only replied, "One says things in a passion which one does not mean to do." Although the plot has been discovered, the conspirators have not yet been all taken. My son says, jokingly, "I have hold of the monster's head and tail, but I have not yet got his body."
Their friends began to take part in the quarrel on either side, when Alexander rode up, and bitterly reproached Hephæstion before them all, saying that he must be a fool and a madman if he did not see, that without Alexander's favour he would be nobody.
He blushed when I reproached him with Calvin's belief that the Pope was the Antichrist of the Apocalypse. "It will be impossible to destroy this prejudice at Geneva," said he, "till the Government orders the effacement of an inscription on the church door which everybody reads, and which speaks of the head of the Roman Church in this manner."
"No," he said, with a teasing laugh. "I wasn't thinking of you." "Oh, Bartley!" she joyfully reproached him. "You must have been!" "Yes, I was! I was so mad at you, that I was glad to have that brute of a station-master bullying some woman!" "Bartley!" He sat holding her hand. "Marcia," he said, gravely, "we must write to your father at once, and tell him.
Besides, this favor affected in no wise his domestic relations; for when Roustan, who had married a young and pretty French girl, a certain Mademoiselle Douville, whose father was valet to the Empress Josephine, was reproached by certain journals in 1814 and 1815 with not having followed to the end of his fortunes the man for whom he had always expressed such intense devotion, Roustan replied that the family ties which he had formed prevented his leaving France, and that he could not destroy the happiness of his own household.
"If I do not produce him before the sun has moved his own width, the gates of the palace shall be opened to you and my warriors will lay down their arms." He turned to one of his priests and issued brief instructions. The ape-man paced the confines of his narrow cell. Bitterly he reproached himself for the stupidity which had led him into this trap, and yet was it stupidity?
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