Nor do I wonder at it in the least.

Do not suppose that I am angry with your mother, or with you, or with your sister.

I have no right to expect that they should keep her after that man has made his way into their house.

I can well conceive that no honest, high-minded lady would do so." "It is not that at all." "But it is that.

How can you tell me that it isn't?
And yet you would have me believe that I am not disgraced!" As he said this Trevelyan got up, and walked about the room, tearing his hair with his hands.
He was in truth a wretched man, from whose mind all expectation of happiness was banished, who regarded his own position as one of incurable ignominy, looking upon himself as one who had been made unfit for society by no fault of his own.