The two first dances, however, brought a return of distress; they were dances of mortification. Mr. Collins, awkward and solemn, gave her all the shame and misery which a disagreeable partner for a couple of dances can give.
She is so proud, and thinks so much of her family respectability, that she will be cut down with mortification if this story should get abroad before—it is done.
You don't know what a mortification anything of that sort is to a woman. You don't know the sleepless nights we've had in this house, and the almost bitter words that have passed between us since that Fifth of November.
I knew by her stony eye—opaque to tenderness, indissoluble to tears—that she was resolved to consider me bad to the last; because to believe me good would give her no generous pleasure: only a sense of mortification.
Society was what he lived for, a party was the breath of his nostrils, not to be asked to one was an affront, to be alone was a mortification; and, an old man now, he was desperately afraid.
And, " she added, after hesitating a little, with a rising sob of mortification, " necklaces are quite usual now; and Madame Poincon, who was stricter in some things even than you are, used to wear ornaments.