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Updated: May 9, 2025
And the pertinacity with which she repeated to herself that it was not her business to take up the cudgels in the Harpers' behalf, of itself suggested a weak point somewhere a touch of the self-excusing which tries to whiten over the unacknowledged self-blame.
What good does it do for me to bring up here just these three out of all I saw ..." Her voice broke into pitiful, self-excusing quavers, "but when I saw them ...the baby was so sick ... and little Sigurd is so cunning ... he took to me right away, came to me the first thing ... this morning he wouldn't pick up his new rubbers off the floor for his mother, but, when I asked him, he did, right off ... you ought to have seen what he had on ... such rags ... such dirt ... and 'twan't her fault either!
Proudly, condescendingly, haughtily superior to the least sparing of herself, as one who stooped at the bidding of Duty, she had told her story, from first to last, omitting nothing; with head erect, pale lips, and flashing eyes, with a passing flush, perhaps, at the more shameful passages, but with no faltering, no dodging, no self-excusing, no beseeching, scornfully when she spoke of home, and the beginning of the end, redly, hatefully, wickedly dangerous, when Philip Withers came on the scene, with tremulous lips and the low tones of Gratitude's most moving eloquence for the story of Miss Wimple and her sublimely simple sacrifice, modestly and with grateful deference, at the mention of Mr.
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