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I went to pay my respects and renew my offers of good services if conciliation were to be attempted, expecting to see a civilized general, but I found only a conceited and bombastic old man who had not the least idea of what he had undertaken.
Turner and Hollworthy home to my house, and there gave wine and sweetmeats; but I find Mrs. Hollworthy but a mean woman, I think, for understanding, only a little conceited, and proud, and talking, but nothing extraordinary in person, or discourse, or understanding.
The doctor and the organist gave effect to the presentation by a nod, and something like a shrug of the shoulders, which deprecated the Rector's conceited pomposity, and implied that if such an exceedingly unlikely contingency as their making friends with Mr Westray should ever happen, it would certainly not be due to any introduction of Canon Parkyn.
Not like the flea-bitten Asiatics even niggers are better than Asiatics, though they are wallowers the American races and the South Sea Islanders the Marquesans, the Maori blood. That was the true blood. It wasn't frightened. All the rest are craven Europeans, Asiatics, Africans everyone at his own individual quick craven and cringing: only conceited in the mass, the mob.
"I am not what you call conceited enough for that, but I would like to believe that I might have a kind word or two on my own account." She tried hard to see his face, but he kept it steadfastly turned away. She sighed. Only a few yards behind the maid was walking. "Mr. Andrew," she said, "it was you whom I meant. Won't you say something nice to me for my own sake?"
Withdraw the patrol, and Tarrano himself might go back to Venus. He would wait a day for answer to this request; and if it were not granted if the patrol were not entirely removed then the Brende model would be destroyed. And if the publics of three worlds wished to depend upon a conceited, ignorant young man like Georg Brende for the everlasting life, they were welcome to do so.
And you conceited Naturalists, where is your Writings and Advice of Reason? And you Physicians, Whither is your Opinion flown, to fetch somewhat afar off over the Seas for to cure the Dropsie, and all Lunary Distempers?
The father or mother spends too much time with the children. The children are pampered. Too many indulgences are permitted them. Children in these over-careful homes are likely to grow up neurotic, conceited, timid, babyish, daydreaming men and women, who are of little use in the world and are often a serious problem for normal people.
And I quarreled with her I, conceited young ass that I was, actually presumed to dictate to the dearest, sweetest, most lovable woman on earth, and tell her what she must do and what she mustn't. I! good Lord, I, who wasn't worthy to sweep a crossing clean for her! who wasn't worthy to breathe the same air with her! who wasn't worthy to exist in the same world she honoured by living in!
He sits brooding a moment, trying to find something very difficult indeed. The motif of Mime's cogitations, which has already been frequently heard in this act, gives amusingly the unheroic colour of the sordid little mind's workings. He fixes upon questions concerning things which might be supposed little known to a wanderer of human descent, even such a much-travelled and conceited one.
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