She would have been obliged to allow, if any one had said it to her, that what she submitted to could not take the shape of duty, but was submission to a yoke drawn on her by an action she was ashamed of, and worn with a strength of selfish motives that left no weight for duty to carry.

What she submitted to was not duty, but a yoke laid on her by an action she was ashamed of, and worn with selfish motives.
