I have tingled with shame at the way in which she spoke of and to him.

Frederick openly insulted him at pleasure.

Every slight was heaped upon him; and he was once told to his very face that he might look elsewhere for a wife, for that my fortune was to win me the hand of some needy Court gallant.

Yes, father, I heard with my own ears those very words spoken--save that the term 'needy' was added in mine own heart.

Oh, I could have shrunk into the earth with shame.