This letter grieved and mortified Nicholas.
He did not mention this to his daughter, but Natasha noticed her father's nervousness and anxiety and felt mortified by it.
And he was mortified by a more erious charge than murmurs about superfluity of zeal.
Deeply mortified by his failure to relieve Breda, which was blockaded by Spinola, Maurice fell seriously ill, and died on the 23rd of April 1625.
