In her secret heart she thought Mrs. Katy must be envious, and rather comforted herself on this view of the subject,sweetly unconscious of any inconsistency in the feeling with her views of utter self-abnegation just announced.

For all the lessons of the Boer war we are still inclined to believe that the soldier has to be something severely parallel, carrying a rifle he fires under orders, obedient to the pitch of absolute abnegation of his private intelligence.

" Eveena's humble, unconscious self-abnegation was rendering the conversation intolerably painful, and even the embarrassing situation now at hand was a welcome interruption.

In contrast with her life of cheerful self-abnegation, ours seemed selfish, meaningless, and empty.

Both of the women now docilely obeyed and aided him, in his heroic self-abnegation.

There was something in the simple, honest self-abnegation of this wealthy and important person that won the respect of all he met.

" Eveena's humble, unconscious self-abnegation was rendering the conversation intolerably painful, and even the embarrassing situation now at hand was a welcome interruption.

with man; police, informer, patrol, picket, scout; and with nature; the deadly reptiles, insects, and maladies of thicketed swamp and sun-beaten, tide-swept marsh; and how far he had got on the splendid mission which her note, with its words of love and faith and of patriotic abnegation, had laid upon him.

And while he still hung in indecision, still hesitated as to whether this or that were the Kingdom of Godthis shrinking dream of a world sufficient to itself, or this brightening visionthen the last light had come, and he had seen one to be victor by sheer self-abnegation, by contempt of his own life, by the all but divine power of an ordinary man walking in grace.

We remember the sublime self-abnegation of Chancellorsville, when, in the midst of his victorious legions, who, with the light of battle yet on their faces, hailed him conqueror, he thought only of his great lieutenant lying wounded on the field, and transferred to him all the honor of that illustrious day.

Very few people would have sufficient self-abnegation for that.

There was the same unmanly abnegation of the courage to meet danger and look it in the eye.

They had borrowed money with hearty but unredeeming frankness, established a credit with unselfish abnegation of all responsibility, and had borne the disappointment of their creditors with a cheerful resignation which only the consciousness of some deep Compensating Future could give.

She made up for this wifely self-abnegation by frequenting the hen houses.

Her sense of duty might have been at the root of this firm and persistent refusal to accept from my hand a gift richer far than "jewels of the mine"the power of varied occupationbut something had secretly whispered to me that this was not all on which her apparent self-abnegation was based, and I think that I was right in my conjecture.

It is all or nothing with them; a blind self-abnegation or the coldest indifference.