Sublime

but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured,

Mr Farebrother was aware that Lydgate was a proud man, but having very little corresponding fibre in himself, and perhaps too little care about personal dignity, except the dignity of not being mean or foolish, he could hardly allow enough for the way in which Lydgate shrank, as from a burn, from the utterance of any word about his private affairs.

The gentlemanly, but slightly Benthamite, gun-room were strict observers of the naval etiquette that prevented any subordinate from speaking to his captain without being spoken to first; and they had grown thoroughly used to Captain Hamond, to whose mind this was a congenial rigour. And then again they were a proud set of men – most of them could a

D’instinct, ils déplaisent à Édouard. Il respecte Semionov comme il respecte Jean-Édern Hallier, parce que ce sont des chefs de gang, mais il méprise leurs gangs. Lui, Édouard, on ne l’achète pas, on ne le domestique pas. Il est un bandit de grand chemin qui veut bien, si leurs routes se croisent, frayer avec le chef, d’égal à égal, mais ne se mêle

Lord Petre, Alexander repeated to himself. Baron Petre of Ingatestone. Heir to one of the greatest Catholic families in England.

proved himself in all respects a worthy minister at the sacred altar of friendship.’

and when he spoke, it was in a low tone, which might be taken for that of an informer ready to be bought off, rather than for the tone of an offended senior. He was not a man to feel any strong moral indignation even on account of trespasses against himself. It was natural that others should want to get an advantage over him, but then, he was a lit