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"And plenty more," put in Uncle Neil to the tune of "Oh wert thou in the cauld blast?" "Gavin's mind is well stored. Mr. Sinclair says he reads Carlyle in the evenings with the Grant girls. I wonder if you could match that anywhere in this country?" Christina felt self-accusing, remembering her superior feeling in Gavin's awkward presence.
Sitting there waiting the dawn, his face became tired, somber, almost haggard, with self-accusing thought. He was not yet a cattle king, he was, in fact, still a cowboy.
Ah, how little is there in worldly possessions, be it large or small, to compensate for a troubled, self-accusing spirit! how little to throw in the balance against the heavy weight of conscious villany! How tenderly, how truly, how devotedly had Edward Claire loved the young wife of his bosom, since the hour the pulses of their spirits first beat in joyful unity!
'I know, said the living Paul Armstrong, looking back on the dead aspiring creature he had been. 'Not a self-accusing thought! Pure worship in the eyes. And the visage! not this battered mask, but the face of eighteen! Not an ounce of alcohol ever fired his blood from his cradle till now. A meagre table all his life through enough and barely enough.
"All this excusing yourself, replied our Blessed Father, is only so much self-accusing as would appear if I chose to examine your reasons in detail and weigh them in the scales of the sanctuary. But without entering into any discussion of them let it suffice that you refer the matter to my judgment.
He was down in the dust, in a despair furious and more self-accusing than anything of which she had ever conceived. Again and again, too, although this was never deliberately stated, she saw that he spoke like a man caught in a trap.
"You are in a self-accusing mood to-day. Let us talk of our neighbors. Bad as that practice is, I believe it is better than talking about ourselves: Mrs. Sancy thinks so, I know?" "Who is Mrs. Sancy?" "I will introduce you to-morrow." Next to being principal in a romantic affaire de coeur is the excitement of being an interested third party.
Moreover, he well knew that the savor would be gone from his happiness with the woman were the taste of another failure acrid in his mouth. As he realized that the die was cast, the sanguineness of his temperament rushed to do battle against apprehension and self-accusing. After all, he was rarely balked of his way, accustomed to ride down obstacles, to the amiable cooperation of fate.
She ran toward it with a conviction of calamity which only took concrete form when she heard her brother's call issuing from the depths of the earth. "The well," she cried with self-accusing anguish. "The old well." But when she stood by its edge and sent her voice ringing down into its depth, it was steady and strong. "I'm going for help, Joel. 'Twon't be much of any time now.
A lamp was burning, but the fire-light was stronger. Mark spoke. In a moment the major was bending over him. "Majie," he said, "I want Corney. I want to tell him." The major, on his way to Corney, told the father that the end was nigh. With sorely self-accusing heart, for the vision of the boy on the stone in the middle of the moor haunted him, he repaired to the anteroom of heaven.
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