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But because his handsome, haughty mother had lived in high-bred, self-congratulatory ignorance of what she believed did not concern her, and because he has for a sister, who's a step-sister, a silly, snobby person, he is not justified in withholding from me what he naturally withheld from them. One can be a human being as well as a lady. It's this that is difficult to make him understand.
As he listened for a moment longer, and then stooped to gather up the debris which had fallen on his own side of the partition, he muttered, in his old self-congratulatory way: "If the devil don't interfere in some way best known to himself, this opportunity I have made for myself of listening to this arrogant fellow's very heartbeats should give me some clew to his secret.
The thing of which he boasts is the thing for which he deserves death since death is supposed to be the supreme punishment. He tells us, in self-congratulatory terms, that he curbed his inhuman longings, satisfied his lust for blood, by going on the bench and helping to 'punish those who did murder! "Too cowardly to strike a blow, he skulked behind the protection of his position.
Something doing," was his cheerful self-congratulatory thought. He had spent his life in the midst of it, he liked it, and it welcomed him back. The appointment he was on his way to keep thrilled him into an uplifted mood.
In addition to these philosophic aspirations he had a strong desire to reach artistic perfection, and to be the herald of a new literary epoch. Conscious of his success and proud of the power he wielded over the minds of the people, he alludes more than once to his performances in a self-congratulatory strain "Enni poeta salve, qui mortalibus Versus propinas flammeos medullitus."
Almost before they had halted, she had nipped out of the car and was hailing a taxi which was on the point of moving off. His bag was already in process of being whisked from one vehicle to the other. This indecent haste to be rid of him roused his obstinacy; he sat still where he was and watched. She returned a little breathless and self-congratulatory. "There! Wasn't that clever of me?
At first he did not mind it so much, but after ten minutes of riding so, the thing grew monotonously painful and disquieting to the nerves. Five miles from the town he sighted the pinto; it was just disappearing up a coulee which led nowhere much less to camp. Weary's self-congratulatory mood changed to impatience; he followed after.
"No; I went to his boarding house, waked up the place at three o'clock this morning. He wasn't there." Hastings asked for the number of the house. It was on Eleventh street, Crown informed him, and gave the number. "I searched his room," the sheriff added, his voice self-congratulatory. "Find anything?" "I should say! The nail file was missing from his dressing case." "What else?"
Frazer, by the nurse's permission, pacing up and down a sunny walk in the kitchen garden, with steps slow and grotesquely dignified, holding the infant warily and tenderly, affirming, when he gave her back to the nurse, in a self-congratulatory tone, that "little miss" would be quiet with him when she would be so with no one else; which certainly might be cause for some wonder, seeing that he would usually accompany his nursings with such extraordinarily guttural attempts at singing as were far better calculated to scare any ordinary baby into temporary convulsions than to soothe it to rest when its slumbers had once been broken.
They found it very difficult. Mrs. Mowgelewsky, restored of vision, was so hospitable, so festive in her elephantine manner, so loquacious and so self-congratulatory, that it was difficult to insert even the tiniest conversational wedge into the structure of her monologue. Finally Miss Bailey managed to catch her attention upon financial matters.
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