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Only the daughter of a country doctor; only the underpaid secretary of a lady novelist, for all she was so conceited now. So naturally Socialism, that disease of the underbred, had taken hold of the less careful of the Potter young. 'And are you going to write for this weekly what-d'you-call-it too, Jane? Mrs. Frank inquired. 'No. I've not got a job yet. I'm going to look round a little first.
You have learnt to sing, and there is no better school for a woman's soul than music and singing. If that conceited simpleton why, he is young enough to be my grandson if he talks any such nonsense to you again you may tell him from me . . ." "You will tell him nothing," cried Herse, "for we can have nothing whatever to do with the Christian.
"Oh, my Saint Père!" and she held out both her hands. "Forgive me, if only for a moment " "I am not your Saint Père, nor any one's! I am a poor, weak, conceited, miserable man, who by his accursed impertinence has broken the heart of the being whom he loves best on earth." Valencia started: but ere she could ask for an explanation, he rejoined wildly "How is she? Tell me only that, this once!
I take the ground to have risen in those parts since Titbull's time, and you drop into his domain by three stone steps. So did I first drop into it, very nearly striking my brows against Titbull's pump, which stands with its back to the thoroughfare just inside the gate, and has a conceited air of reviewing Titbull's pensioners.
The noise they made was so great that sailors far out at sea thought that a terrible storm was coming. "Hark to that gale howling in the East!" they said. And Jip was awfully proud of himself though he tried hard not to look conceited. When Dab-Dab came to him and said, "Jip, I had no idea you were so clever!" he just tossed his head and answered, "Oh, that's nothing special.
It has contributed not a little, by its consistent action and permanent character, to the preservation of our naval organisation the worth of which has been proved everywhere, in the Crimea, on the battlefields in 1870, in Tunis, and in China from the results of the conceited ignorance of mushroom politicians.
Don't be conceited, child, and thank your Maker for all the kindness you have received. Did you not get into a warm room, and have you not fallen into company from which you may learn something? But you are a chatterer, and it is not pleasant to associate with you. You may believe me, I speak for your good. I tell you disagreeable things, and by that one may always know one's true friends!
"Then, I tell you what," exclaimed Kitty, "I'd like to bet with you that you are wrong that I'll be the most popular girl in the whole of the school with the teachers yes, with the teachers and the scholars as well." "You must be very conceited," exclaimed Elma, who had sat silent during the greater part of the evening, taking Kitty in, however, all the same. "Conceited?
It is his friends who tell him that he is a splendid success, when he needs to be told that, at best, he has some slight chance of success, and that everything depends on desperate effort. Look at the young, conceited fool who, instead of struggling on, rails at the world, feels that he is not appreciated. He is a failure a sad, foolish failure.
He is a fool, a conceited fool, and a selfish fool." "You know him?" inquired her uncle in a tone of surprise. "No, I have no personal acquaintance with him, I'm glad to say, but I know about him, and I know that he came with Mr. Rae, the Writer." "Ah, yes! Thoroughly respectable man, Mr. Rae." "Yes, Mr. Rae is all right; but Captain Cameron oh, I can't bear him!
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