" "The cause of the oracle's silence," returned the old woman, "is the unworthiness of the minister.

Her sense of sin, and of her own unworthiness in the sight of God, grew more and more intense and oppressive.

In fact, occasions were not wanting in which the bourgeois class was able to refute the charge of unworthiness with which the nobles sought to stamp it.

Lord Bowen is immortalized by his emendation to the Judge's address to the Queen, which had contained the Heep-like sentence"Conscious as we are of our own unworthiness for the great office to which we have been called."

I have only to add that I am perfectly satisfied as to the propriety of my behavior in Marian's case, and that I absolutely refuse to hear another accusation of unworthiness from you, much as I respect you and your sorrow.

He did not affect unworthiness like Gregory in later years, but accepted at once the immense responsibility.