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Julie hurriedly repressed him. Did she feel instinctively that there are thanks which it sometimes humiliates a man to remember, lavishly as he may have poured them out at the moment thanks which may easily count in the long run, not for, but against, the donor? She rather haughtily asked what she had done but say a chance word to Lady Froswick? The shares had to be allotted to somebody.
"I am thinking of my mother, dear, and of her wretched life. It humiliates me to remember that she, who was a saint, suffered so many sorrows, while I, her child, who have done nothing to merit it, am too, too happy." "Nothing to merit happiness? You, whose constancy and heroism I could not dare to imitate?
Bently made a sudden gesture of repulsion, her head drooped, a flush swept up to her brow, and tears rushed to her eyes. "Poor little woman!" said Justin Cutler to himself, "it humiliates her to think of selling her jewels of course it must." Then he asked, after a moment of thought: "Would you accept the amount that Mr. Arnold offered?"
"But then he came," broke out MacIan, "and my soul said to me: 'Give up fighting, and you will become like That. Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. You may learn, also, that fog of false philosophy. You may grow fond of that mire of crawling, cowardly morals, and you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because it humiliates.
Then they wake up with a memory of mutual giving-way that embitters and humiliates when the inevitable longing for something more stable than softness and breathlessness sets in.
"Not enough that he has banished our friends and faithful servants, surrounding us with his miserable creatures and spies not enough that he wounds and humiliates us in every way he would rend the young emperor from us, his parents, his natural protectors. We are attacked in our holiest rights, and must, therefore, defend ourselves."
"Money is one of those curious things uninteresting if you have enough, tragic if you haven't. I don't think talking about money is vulgar I think it is simply dull: to discuss poverty is like discussing a disease to discuss wealth is like talking about food or wine. The poverty that simply humiliates and pinches can't be joked about it's far too serious for that!
It depresses the spirits, and humiliates the soul, that this war is now running into its fifth year, has cost thirty millions of dollars, has successively baffled and disgraced all our chief military generals, Gaines, Scott, Jesup, and Macomb, and that our last resources now are bloodhounds and no quarter.
True, things had turned out far better than he had expected. There was no cant about her. She did not lecture him or "talk religion" in what he regarded as the stereotyped way, and he was sure she would not, even if they became better acquainted. But there is that in genuine goodness and nobility of character that always humiliates the bad and makes them feel their degradation.
For he secretly believed that Helen loved him, and although if a man humiliates himself in the eyes of the woman he loves it is as bitter as death; yet to prove unworthy in the sight of her who hopelessly loves him, contains a more subtly envenomed shaft, which wounds that most sensitive spot in a sensuous man's nature his vanity. HEART-BURNING HEAT OF DUTY. Love's Labor's Lost; i.
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