Both Uses of
contempt
in
Washington Square
- Her father's displeasure had cost the girl, as we know, a great deal of deep-welling sorrow—sorrow of the purest and most generous kind, without a touch of resentment or rancour; but for the first time, after he had dismissed with such contemptuous brevity her apology for being a charge upon him, there was a spark of anger in her grief.†
Chpt 23 *
- She had felt his contempt; it had scorched her; that speech about her bad taste made her ears burn for three days.†
Chpt 23