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She was conscious of gross tergiversation, of having ratted shamefully; for that merry party in the afternoon, as they stood in the camp of Rockcliffe overlooking Commonstone, had, one and all, vowed to foot it merrily in the town-hall on Easter Monday, and agreed that for real lovers of dancing a country ball beat a London one all to pieces.
As many strong presumptions of guilt had appeared against him in the reports of the secret committee, the nation had reason to expect that this proposal would have been embraced by a great majority; but several members, who in the preceding session had been loud in their demands of justice, now shamefully contributed their talents and interest in stifling the inquiry.
The more Edwin associated with these friends, the more he began to understand how he had been wronged; for many questions concerning the earth, the sky, and himself were corrected. In explaining about St. Nick, Mr. Hahn said: "Edwin, that terrible creature that treated you so shamefully on Christmas eve was not St. Nicholas at all.
The revelations not long since published in the London Pall Mall Gazette revealed fashionable aristocratic depravity in the British metropolis in a shamefully disreputable light, and disclosed the services of the professional procuress in all their repulsive loathsomeness.
At first, Miss Blake refused to see me; but after a time she relented, and, thankful, perhaps, to have once again anyone over whom she could tyrannise, treated her niece's future husband as Helena declared most shamefully. "But you two must learn to agree, for there shall be no quarrelling in our house," added the pretty autocrat. "You needn't trouble yourself about that, Helena," said her aunt.
You collect Sèvres china with or without a pedigree, and she coughed dryly; 'I collect promising young women. On the whole, I think my hobby is more beneficial to you than yours is profitable to me. Mr. Wynnstay was furious. Only a week before he had been childishly, shamefully taken in by a Jew curiosity dealer from Vienna, to his wife's huge amusement.
The government was such as to promote the rule of private interests instead of the general welfare, and, consequently, their interests were shamefully neglected. The real cause of the mischief was, as in America, the nominating system, which is inseparably connected with the present method of election.
I don't feel like it. Katy.-You treat Dr. Elliott shamefully. I should think he would really avoid you as you avoid him. Kate-Don't let me hear his name. I don't avoid him. Katy.-You do not deserve his good opinion. Kate.-Yes, I do. Just awake in the morning. Katy.-Oh, dear! how hateful I am! I am cross and selfish, and domineering, and vain.
The young lady complains that she has been shamefully jilted by Captain Matamore, who has deserted her for Isabelle, the daughter of a certain Pandolphe, and demands instant reparation for this outrage, adding that her brother is ready to exact it at the point of the sword, or avenge the insult by taking the life of the heartless villain who has trifled with her youthful affections.
Blanche was sent to prison at Medina-Sidonia on a trumped-up charge, was shamefully treated during the time of her captivity, and died in 1359, in the same year that Maria de Padilla, discredited and cast aside, also found rest in death.
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