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"Transact in such manner, with secular persons, with whom you have familiarity or friendship, as if you thought they might one day become your enemies: by this management of yourself, you will neither do nor say any thing of which you may have reason to repent you, and with which they may upbraid you in their passion.
Although the pace at which they travelled over a rough road was such as to fill the tutor with instant terror and urgent thoughts of death although first one lamp was extinguished and then another, and the carriage swung so violently as from moment to moment to threaten an overturn, Mr. Pomeroy never ceased to hang out of the window, to yell at the horses and upbraid the driver.
The very children would upbraid the wretched individual who should endeavor to take life and the world as w what we might naturally suppose them meant for a place and opportunity for enjoyment. It is the iron rule in our day to require an object and a purpose in life.
Before it was ready, however, an unexpected trouble arose. In some way or other, Mill had got wind of our proceeding, and, coming to me in consequence, began almost to upbraid me as its originator. I had never before seen him so angry. He hated all such demonstrations, he said, and was quite resolved not to be made the subject of them.
"You do not come to upbraid me, Jacob, I am sure," said she, in a melancholy voice; "you are too kind-hearted for that." "No, no, Mary; I come to comfort you, if possible." "That is not possible. Look at me, Jacob. Is there not a worm a canker that gnaws within?" The hollow cheek and wild flaring eye, once so beautiful, but too plainly told the truth.
It must, indeed, be owned that antiquity has an equal claim to authority in matters of imitation, as grey hairs in the precedence of age. I myself have as great a veneration for it as any man: nor do I so much upbraid antiquity with her defects, as admire the beauties she was mistress of: especially as I judge the latter to be of far greater consequence than the former.
My memory is as fresh to-day as it was four-and-thirty years ago, when my wrongs were only a twelvemonth old." Joseph Wilmot had said all this almost as if he yielded to an uncontrollable impulse, and spoke because he must speak, rather than from the desire to upbraid Henry Dunbar.
Sophy was agreeably surprised with the account of his good fortune; nor was it, in all probability, unacceptable to the lovely Emilia; though, from this information, she took an opportunity to upbraid her admirer with the inflexibility of his pride, which, she scrupled not to say, would have baffled all the suggestions of his passion, had it not been gratified by this providential event.
I therefore directed my steps towards Thornhill-castle, resolving to upbraid him, and, if possible, to bring back my daughter: but before I had reached his seat, I was met by one of my parishioners, who said he saw a young lady resembling my daughter in a post-chaise with a gentleman, whom, by the description, I could only guess to be Mr Burchell, and that they drove very fast.
She will have fled far away, and in her stead will she leave this sullen messenger to tell thee that thy Jane has parted from thee forever! Do not upbraid me, Hal. Do not call me ungrateful or rash. Indeed, I shall not be able to bear thy reproaches. I know they will kill me quite. And don't expostulate with me. Confirm me rather in my new resolution.
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