He looked from Tom Ryfe's white face, staring over the badge and great-coat of a London cabman, to the sinking form of his wifeas he believedin the arms of her lover, clinging to him for protection, responding in utter shamelessness to his caresses and endearments.

Her beautifully formed bosom, covered only by the shirt, rose and fell in goddesslike shamelessness.

A little shamelessness on this head is pardonable.

Is it that, as every beautiful thing has its hideous antitype, this mutual shamelessness is the devil's ape of mutual confidence?

But, thought Des Esseintes, this sickly shamelessness often obstructed the inventive sallies of the casuist.