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He says he could consult her into going out hunting." "For shame, Viola! O fie! O Vi!" said I, according to an old formula of reproof. "Really, I wanted to tell you. It might not be too late if you took to consulting her now; and I can't bear being shut up from you. Everything is grown so stupid.
"But that remark," she added hastily, seeing that Margaret looked more miserable even than before, "is not intended as a reproof, for the way they went on was enough to make any one lose their temper, but as a friendly warning. They'll tease you unmercifully if they find you lose your temper, and I shan't be able to stop it.
There was a long, long silence, broken by a silvery laugh, which came through the half-opened window like a strain of cheerful music, then was suddenly cut short. "Hush, Charley; you forget," said the soft voice of Agnes; "he may be sleeping." Through the calm spring air the reproof was borne into the sick man's room as clearly as the sound which had called it forth.
And even as he spoke the door of the antechamber opened and Chavernay made his appearance unannounced, as briskly impudent, as cheerfully self-confident as ever. He shook a finger in playful reproof at Gonzague as he advanced, wholly unimpressed by the slight frown which knitted the brows of his unexpected host.
"Out upon thee, fellow! dost thou make no distinction between the son of a fisherman, one trained to the oar and toil, and the heir of an ancient house? Go to, presuming man, and remember thy condition, and the difference that God hath made between our children." "Mine never gave me sorrow but the hour in which they died," said the fisherman, uttering a severe but mild reproof.
"That's right ask the maids, and get all the servants talking; all come down on the heels of a poor little girl like a pack of yapping wolves! I suppose if she was plain and unattractive I should think you'd be ashamed," he went on, changing his high and querulous key to one of almost priestly authority and reproof, "Upon my word, it's beneath your dignity.
SYLVIA to OCTAVIO. I own, too angry, and too nice Octavio, the crime you charge me with; and did believe a person of your gallantry, wit and gaiety, would have passed over so little a fault, with only reproaching me pleasantly; I did not expect so grave a reproof, or rather so serious an accusation. Youth has a thousand follies to answer for, and cannot Octavio pardon one sally of it in Sylvia?
Lady Mar colored at this reproof, and, turning to Edwin, more gently said, "You know that the dignity of his situation must be maintained; and while others attend his couch, I must his reputation." "I have often heard that 'Fame is better than life!" replied Edwin, still smiling; "and I thank Lady mar for showing me how differently people may translate the same lesson.
But I tell you this, madame, he knew here" she touched her heart "he knew here, that madame looked what she is a queen!" "Absurd child!" The reproof was gentle; Jacqueline's nimble tongue took advantage of the chance given it. "And tell me, madame? He play his part gallantly Monsieur Édouard?" Never before had she dared so much; but never before had Maxine's eyes looked as they looked to-night.
"And very silly too," she continued; but there was something so tender and caressing in her manner, that the words sounded like anything but a reproof. "I don't think I am silly," said Barbara. "Yes, you are, if you are really making yourself miserable about an idle rumour, and nothing more." "But everybody says it is true.
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