The sad truth is that Mr.Eldon has utterly disgraced himself.

When he ought to have been here to attend Mr.Mutimer's funeral, he was living at Paris and other such places in the most shocking dissipation.

Things are reported of him which I could not breathe to you; he is a bad young man!' The inclusiveness of that description! Mrs.Waltham's head quivered as she gave utterance to the words, for at least half of the feeling she expressed was genuine.

To her hearer the final phrase was like a thunderstroke.

In a certain profound work on the history of her country which she had been in the habit of studying, the author, discussing the character of Oliver Cromwell, achieved a most impressive climax in the words, 'He was a bold, bad man.' The adjective 'bad' derived for Adela a dark energy from her recollection of that passage; it connoted every imaginable phase of moral degradation.