Respectable in example sentence
But Madame de Renal thrust him from her, and continued quite firmly:'My respectable friend M. Chelan made me realise that, in marrying M. de Renal, I had pledged all my affections to him, even those of which I was still ignorant, which I had never felt before a certain fatal intimacy ...Since the great sacrifice of those letters, which were so precious to me, my life has flowed on, if not happily, at any rate quietly enough.