"Which I wouldn't Bemean myself to do anything of the kind," said the woman with a toss of the head; "but certainly she was crying, and soon after I was a-leaning out of the second floor window, it being very 'ot indoors, as we've been a good deal 'arrissed lately by her ladyship."
"Lady Maude's Mania"
George Manville Fenn
I wouldn't Bemean myself to quarrel.
"By Birth a Lady"
George Manville Fenn
Whenever I think of you, dear Father-you, who are so infinitely nobler, and better, and truer, and more really a gentleman than any other than I ever knew in my life-whenever I think of you, coming secretly up to Oxford as if you were ashamed of yourself, and visiting your own son by stealth in his rooms in college as if you were a dun coming to ask him for money, instead of the person whom he delights to honour-whenever I think of it, Father, it makes my cheeks burn with shame, and I loathe myself for ever allowing you so to Bemean your own frank, true, noble nature.
"Philistia"
Grant Allen