Sentence:  When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the <WSD>winds</WSD> and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".