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A sad smile passed over the old man's face. "My son is old in vice," replied he. "I have thought the matter over only too plainly. Yesterday he declared that he would kill himself. An absurd threat. Up to this time I have been culpably weak, and it is no use now to act in an opposite direction.
The hero of the tale is the patient, tolerant, loving father, who had acted, as a censorious critic might say, foolishly and culpably, in supplying the dissolute boy with resources, and taking him back without a word of just reproach. A sad lack of moral discipline, no doubt!
Her own had been lent to a friend the preceding evening, and the mother would have held herself most culpably extravagant to uncase hers without a most palpable necessity. Miss Polly was preparing to go out unsheltered, when the officious Tom interfered, and asked her if he could do what she wanted.
The merchant sat still, but grew whiter and whiter. "And if on the top of that he gave you all the details of his schame, without even waiting to see if you favoured it or not, he would be more than indiscrate, wouldn't he? Your own good sinse, me dear sir, will tell you that he would be culpably foolish culpably so, bedad!" "Well, sir?" said the old man, in a hoarse voice.
Gummidge for tearful sentiment, and culpably indifferent to the smiles of beauty. James is greatly misunderstood: the romance of his youth sword and cloak and disguise, pistol, dagger and poison, prepared for him; story of true love blighted by a humorous cast of destiny; voyages, perils, shipwrecks, dances at inns all is forgotten or is unknown.
She would have seen to things had she thought of it; but the obstinate fact remained that, if not wilfully, she had been culpably careless, and her heart sank with shame. She hoped oh, how devoutly she hoped that Fanny had been more thoughtful; but the prospect was slight, and for the rest of the way she sat in a perfect panic of dread and shame.
Brudenell been in making this tribute to Ishmael that he had forgotten to explain the circumstances that would have exonerated him from the suspicion of having culpably neglected his child. Berenice brought him back to his recollection by saying: "But I am sure you must have made some provision for this boy; how was it then that he never derived any benefit from it?
There are thousands who succeed very well in governing themselves their temper and their passions while the eye of the world is upon them, who, nevertheless, fail most culpably in this respect, when at home, secluded, as they seem to think themselves, from observation.
I feel that I have been culpably negligent, and altogether too trustful. 'I wish to goodness I knew where you could get the money; but, of course, if I knew that, I would have had it myself long ago. 'I am very much obliged to you, said Kenyon; 'but the only thing you can do for me is to see that your clock is not ahead of time to-morrow.
Almost on the instant did he perceive it; and quickly squatting himself in front of the cask, he took hold of the steering-oar, which he had so culpably neglected, and, although still ignorant of the fact that his own negligence had caused the disaster, he bent all his energies towards remedying it.
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