self-reproof

I answered, grovelling before him, that it might be--it might be; but---- "But--who of us is not?" he answered, with a sudden gesture between scorn and self-reproof.

We look into our own bosoms for consolation: alas! it is flown with our innocence; and in its room we feel the sharpest stings of self-reproof.

She sighed a little as she sat there on the modelling platform; and then there came again that little smile of self-reproof, and with it a chiding shake of her head.

"I meant to have my hair cut yesterday," said Alan, in grave and reflective self-reproof.

“Why did I not recognise you immediately?” she demanded of herself, frowning in self-reproof.