His careless committal of the ring to the ground (which he was commissioned to restore to Cesario), bespeaks a generosity of birth and feeling.

The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Am. ed.), II., 21.] Tertullian names among "sins of daily committal, to which we all are liable," the "sin" of "lying, from bashfulness [or modesty], or 'necessity.'"

But even Angelina shrank from such an irretrievable committal on his part as this would be, and did not think the time had yet come for such an anomaly.

What he would hate, she perceived, was the suddenness of the demand and the irrevocable committal to those five years; the blow it was to those domesticities and proprieties he loved so much.

But the piece de resistance of the day was to be the examination and probable committal of the Obeah-man of those parts.

" The glorification of seppuku offered, naturally enough, no small temptation to its unwarranted committal.