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"Oh! a' say," remarked a born East-Ender, for whom we are perfectly certain the Clyde and Thistle, according to his self-importance at any rate, had played their best on Barrowfield and Beechwood, "look at that; it's no' fair to gie the Vale a free kick for that; it's the auld way; gie't ta the yin that mak's the maist noise."
I thought his eye seemed unwarrantably superior to the elements and to the man, but quickly attributed that to the characteristic self-importance of a petty chef. "Camp cook" was the niche that I gave him in the Hall of Types; and he fitted it as an apple fits a dumpling.
She had not scrupled constantly to prefer her whims to the common advantage, and even safety; while her sense of self-importance had come to be so great, that she seemed to hold herself exempt from the duty of thanking any human creature.
In a protective kind of way. He'd sized Mark up, of course his vanity, his self-importance, his amateurishness and all the rest of it but he liked looking after him. And he knew how to manage him." "Yes.... What sort of terms was he on with the guests you and Miss Norris and all of them?" "Just polite and rather silent, you know. Keeping himself to himself.
She pined for the sound of his step thought of throwing herself into his arms, and seeking consolation there for the pains of an habitual self-importance crushed beyond bearing. But when that step was actually heard outside, her mind veered in an instant.
He was then just come of age, or about to be so; and one of his objects in this visit to the metropolis was, to take his seat in the House of Lords before going abroad; but, in advancing to this proud distinction, so soothing to the self-importance of youth, he was destined to suffer a mortification which probably wounded him as deeply as the sarcasms of the Edinburgh Review.
Grant was conscious of an undercurrent of suspicion in the constable's manner. He was wroth with the man, but recognized that he had to deal with narrow-minded self-importance, so contrived again to curb his temper. "I am not acquainted with old Ben or his ghost," he said quietly. "I can only tell you that I went inside to reassure Mrs. Bates, and then strolled slowly to this very spot.
Some say women are incapable of such a masculine virtue that women cannot put their private feelings in their pocket and act in subordination to the good of the whole that they cannot sink their self-importance and their petty jealousies that they cannot suppress themselves for a cause. Schools like ours have done a great deal for the mental education of women.
"You nebbeh get old, Missee Alice," said the sick man. "Twenty yea' I know you always like li'l gi'l." "Nonsense, Po!" cried Alice. Nevertheless she was pleased. "Will you and Hang Far stay with me?" "I t'ink so, Missee," Po replied. "By 'n' by we take one li'l tlip fo' honeymoon. But plitty soon come back." The labor movement grew and Dennis with it both in self-importance and in popularity.
To see what one has not seen before, is not that almost as good as to see what no one has ever seen? Romance, exhilaration, self-importance these are what my labels symbolised and recalled to me. That lost collection was a running record of all my happiest hours; a focus, a monument, a diary.
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