Misfortune in example sentence
He was astonished at her discourse, and said gravely to her, 'Madam, you are a stranger to me, but it is very unfortunate that you should be let into the secret of the worst action of my life, and a thing that I am so justly ashamed of, that the only satisfaction of it to me was, that I thought it was known only to God and my own conscience.''Pray, sir,' says she, 'do not reckon the discovery of it to me to be any part of your misfortune.