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The self-denial which they display is a rebuke to our ever-growing luxury; their generosity contrasts favourably with the increasing bitterness of our cynicism; their contented acquiescence in God's will rebukes our incessant restlessness; above all, their constant elevation shames that multitude of little vices, and little meannesses, which lie like a scurf over the conventionality of modern life.
"I hope so, aunt," said Walter, now more cheerily, "But you must give me the example for all that; for you have one to the purpose, I know." "Yes," was her reply, "I think I have, and I will tell it because it may help to confirm you in keeping on the right side that new leaf which I feel sure you are now turning over." "Ah, tell it me then, auntie; if it shames me a hit it will do me no harm."
Of the interminable train of shames and brutalities entailed by this pernicious system, I shall mention here only a single one the sentencing and punishment of an accused person in the midst of the proceedings against him, and while his guilt is not finally and definitively established.
They began to think her half an angel in Dreamland, and it seemed as though she were not made for this world at all. The same thing happens now occasionally, and in this way we acknowledge our shortcomings before our fellow-men and women when we find some one considerably above the average who shames us into confessing it. I hope the Recording Angel is within hearing at these precious moments.
My father died of shame; my husband, who married me from pity and because I had a poor two thousand crowns, could not bear that men should flee from me as from a branded culprit; this grief drove him to drink, and when he comes home drunk at night, he beats me and shames me; the next morning he prays, with strong crying and tears, for forgiveness, but goes again and begins anew the same sad existence.
Now was the time for Mara to make her inquiries; her heart beat, she knew not why, for she was full of those little timidities and shames that so often embarrass children in their attempts to get at the meanings of things in this great world, where they are such ignorant spectators. "Captain Kittridge," she said at last, "do the mermaids toll any bells for people when they are drowned?"
Bathsheba indulged in contemplations of escape from her position by immediate death, which thought she, though it was an inconvenient and awful way, had limits to its inconvenience and awfulness that could not be overpassed; whilst the shames of life were measureless.
She felt as if a screening mask had fallen and her only thought now was to make an escape before discovery should add one more humiliation to this night of shames. "You are very good," she said shyly. "I cannot tell you how I thank you. And I feel so much better that if you will please let me go " "Go? To Wilderness Lodge? It's miles and miles, child and it's pouring cats and dogs again.
Each time she turned in again, each time, in her impatience, she gave him up, it was to sound to a deeper depth, while she tasted the faint, flat emanation of things, the failure of fortune and of honour. If she continued to wait it was really, in a manner, that she might not add the shame of fear, of individual, personal collapse, to all the other shames.
"He talks it and he lives it," said Connie, with emphasis. "It's marvellous! it shames one." Nora shrugged her shoulders. "But what can he do with his poor hand! You know Mr. Sorell has taken a cottage for him at Boar's Hill above Hinksey?" Yes, Connie knew. She seemed suddenly on her guard. "But he can't live alone?" said Nora. "Who on earth's going to look after him?" Connie hesitated.
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