His heart was full, and his conscience tortured by remorse; for he accused himself more bitterly than ever of being the cause of the irretrievable disaster.
Untold tonnes end up as irretrievable ocean flotsam, which sunlight and salt fragment into microscopic pieces that attract toxins and may be gulped by creatures that become seafood.
Do you think, then, dear Clifford, " added she, with a wretched smile, " that I have brought an irretrievable disgrace on the old house, by opening a little shop in the front gable?