The next moment, one of his fits of pain coming on, he broke into such a torrent of cursing as swept her in stately dignity from the room.

She would not go near him again.
"Brought up as you have been, Mary," she said, "you can not enter into the feelings of one in my position, to whom the very tone even of coarse language is unspeakably odious.

It makes me sick with disgust.
Coarseness is what no lady can endure.

I beg you will not mention Mr.
Redmain to me again." "Dear Mrs.Redmain," said Mary, "ugly as such language is, there are many things worse.

It seems to me worse that a wife should not go near her husband when he is suffering than that he should in his pain speak bad words." She had been on the point of saying that a thin skin was not purity, but bethought herself in time.
"You are scarcely in a position to lay down the law for me, Mary," said Hesper.