"I feel as if I were disgraced forever.

What do you think a mother would feel like if she found her child tattooed over with a baking powder advertisement?
I feel just the same.

I loved my poor little story, and I wrote it out of the best that was in me.
And it is SACRILEGE to have it degraded to the level of a baking powder advertisement.

Don't you remember what Professor Hamilton used to tell us in the literature class at Queen's?
He said we were never to write a word for a low or unworthy motive, but always to cling to the very highest ideals.

What will he think when he hears I've written a story to advertise Rollings Reliable?
And, oh, when it gets out at Redmond! Think how I'll be teased and laughed at!" "That you won't," said Gilbert, wondering uneasily if it were that confounded Junior's opinion in particular over which Anne was worried.
"The Reds will think just as I thought--that you, being like nine out of ten of us, not overburdened with worldly wealth, had taken this way of earning an honest penny to help yourself through the year.