Both Uses of
compunction
in
The Portrait of a Lady
- "You've plenty of time," she had said to Isabel in return for the mutilated confidences which our young woman made her and which didn't pretend to be perfect, though we have seen that at moments the girl had compunctions at having said so much.†
Chpt 19 *
- "It isn't in the least that you've married—it is that you have married HIM," she had deemed it her duty to remark; agreeing, it will be seen, much more with Ralph Touchett than she suspected, though she had few of his hesitations and compunctions.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
guilt for a misdeed; or a feeling that it would be wrong to do something