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I walked over to the window, and stood looking out into the busy street. "This fellow may be very clever," I said to myself, "but he is certainly very conceited." "There are no crimes and no criminals in these days," he said, querulously. "What is the use of having brains in our profession. I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous.
The only other conductor besides Taubert, whom I had known previously as a man devoid of talent, and at the same time very conceited, was Heinrich Dorn, of whom I retained most unpleasant recollections from my earliest years and from our joint stay in Riga.
"Crisp is no more a beauty than his master," observed Robin, patting the dog, who leaped to the caress: "but you cannot like him as well as black Blanche, or Bright-eye, your mistress's silken favourites, who show their teeth at the poor fellow whenever he approaches the entrance?" "Bright-eye is a trifle conceited, I grant; but Blanche is like a lamb, only what can she do?
She seemed to think her father and mother undignified and uncultivated, and she disapproved entirely of her sisters dress and bearing. She said that they had no distinction of manner and that all their interests were frivolous and unenlightened. "But Clara always was a conceited girl," thought Betty. "She was always patronising people, and Rosy was only pretty and sweet.
"He is a spy," he remarked a little later to Miot, "whom the Directory have set upon me: he is a man of no talent only conceited." The splendour of his achievements and the mingled grace and authority of his demeanour so imposed on the envoy that he speedily fell under the influence of the very man whom he was to watch, and became his enthusiastic adherent.
Father used to say she was the most unreasonable woman in the world for when she hired a gall she expected perfection, for two dollars and a half a month. Mr Jackson! didn't that make him feel good all over? Why shouldn't he be called Mr, as well as that selfish conceited M'Clure, Captain? Yes, there is a great charm in that are word, "Mr."
"That you were desperately in love with me, and that I was your sweetheart, as the children say." And Mr. Ralph gently caressed the downy covering of his chin, and smiled. "What a conceited thing you are," said Fanny, laughing; "you are outrageous." And having uttered this opinion, Miss Fanny's eyes suddenly fell, and her merry cheek colored.
He certainly did not think himself a saint, nor had he any hypocritical pretensions to virtue, but, nevertheless, he thought as highly of himself as much as he did of anybody else, and perhaps, even a trifle more highly. And that, quite impartially, without any more self love than was necessary, and without his having to accuse himself of being self conceited.
A day or two after this meeting with her old friend, and just as she was returning from her usual walk, Mona encountered a young man as she was about to mount the steps leading into Mrs. Montague's residence. He was dressed in the height of fashion, and might have been regarded as fairly good-looking if he had not been so conceited and self-conscious.
I think one is pride, which makes you so conceited, because you live in a big house or have an automobile or fine clothes, that you will not speak to or play with other boys and girls who have not quite such fine things, although they may be just as bright and just as good as you. Pride is a little fox that kills the vine of brotherliness which Christ planted in our hearts.
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