23/25 Nevertheless, I humbly beg your pardon. That her sister-in-law should express such abject contrition was to her such a lowering of the great ones of the earth, that the apology conveyed to her more pain than pleasure. She could not hinder herself from sympathising with all that her sister-in-law had felt when she had found herself called upon to humiliate herself. But it was not so with Priscilla. Mrs.Stanbury did not observe that her daughter's name was scrupulously avoided in the apology; but Priscilla observed it. |