From whom may we demand the utterance of lofty principles and of high convictions, if not from the very men whose business it is to punish the unhappy wretches whose actions have declared their principles, expressed or otherwise, of the flimsiest?
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
I writhed and twisted to get out of facing the consequences of my own actions; and since then the weight of my own self-contempt has grown steadily heavier.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
As the slow hours dragged by, that resolution shaped itself more and more definitely in her mind, and with it there fell away her old self-consciousness about the world's opinion of her actions.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee