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You've not spirit enough to scold, and all the while you are thinking me vile and base and mean." "But that is ridiculous. Nobody could think you mean," Susan said. "There it is again. You believe it is kind to talk so, and it drives me mad. I am shameful do you hear? I am shameful and perhaps I want to be, and I loathe myself. Now, go. I shall not stay with you. Go." Susan stood up.
Women were such queer creatures. As he went downstairs he wondered with a sudden almost shameful confusion whether he was responsible in some way for the awkwardness that the scene had had.
Modest and well-governed Imaginations have by this Means lost the Representations of Ten Thousand charming Portraitures, filled with Images of innate Truth, generous Zeal, couragious Faith, and tender Humanity; instead of which, Satyrs, Furies, and Monsters are recommended by those Arts to a shameful Eternity.
The Indians were always stealing white men's horses, but they seemed to think it was very much more wicked and shameful for white men to steal Indians' horses. They fell upon Kenton and beat him over the head with their ramrods and mocked him with cries of, "Steal Indians' hoss, hey!" But this was only the beginning of his sufferings.
Lessways would not have related the episode to anybody upon any consideration whatever. It was a shameful secret, never even referred to. But Mrs. Lessways had unmistakably though indirectly referred to it when in anger she had said to her daughter aged twenty: "I suppose her ladyship will be consulting her own lawyer next!" Hilda had understood, and that was why she had blushed.
He resolved to redeem his shameful defeat by a bold stroke. He no longer guarded himself, but took his sabre in both hands and rushed furiously on his antagonist, resolved to kill him, if he had to lose his own life.
Such a deed is just like him the brave faithful friend! But such shameful suspicion and disgrace shall not weigh upon him a moment longer!" "You are speaking to an older man," said Petrus angrily interrupting the youth's vehement speech. "Your friend acknowledged with his own lips " "Then he told a lie out of pure goodness," Hermas insisted. "The sheepskin that the Gaul found was mine.
Was he not crazy to remain there? . . . But immediately there came galloping into his mind the great riches which the castle contained. If he could only take it all away! . . . That was impossible now through want of means and time. Besides, his stubborn will looked upon such flight as a shameful concession. "We must finish what we have begun!" he said to himself.
I am so anxious about the crisis there. We have had a very interesting visit lately from the grandson of Goethe. My dearest Sarianna, I do hope that Robert takes his share of the blame in using and abusing you as we have done. It was altogether too bad shameful to send that last MS. for you to copy out; and I did, indeed, make a little outcry about it, only he insisted on having it so.
"Did you devise it?" "By the Holy One no!" cried Ameni. And yet Pentaur is sincere, and inclined to faith," said the old man doubtfully. "I know it," returned Ameni. "It happened as he said. But who did it, and who told him of the shameful deed?" Both the priests stood thoughtfully gazing at the floor. Ameni first broke the silence.
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