Then, as she grew older, as she read the books that he lent her and talked over with her, she had moved some way from her father's-the simple-minded soldier's-position, and she judged Dick Wantele rather hardly, half despising him for having so contentedly, or so she thought, sunk into the position of adopted son to his wealthy cousin.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
And above those dreadful voices the thundering echo, indifferent to his agonies, despising his frailties, flinging him, sea-wreck of the most miserable, to any insignificant end....
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
She, an upright, honourable English girl, loving truth with all her heart, and despising whatever was underhand and disloyal, had but one course to take-she must break off her engagement with a man so far below her standard of simple morality.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr