Sentence:  Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the <WSD>respectability</WSD> out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of <WSD>respectability</WSD>: ... it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The quality of being respectable.