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Graham, though she said little to any purpose, and appeared somewhat self-opinionated, seemed not incapable of reflection,—though she did not know where she had been all her life, poor thing, for she betrayed a lamentable ignorance on certain points, and had not even the sense to be ashamed of it. ‘On what points, mother?’ asked I.
"There's nothing mean about Martinez," said Winslow to Brace confidentially, in English. "He's up to anything, and ready from the word 'Go. Don't you think he's a little like Banks, you know a sort of Mexican edition. And there is Ruiz, he's a cattle dealer; he'd be a good friend of Banks if Banks wasn't so infernally self-opinionated. But Ruiz ain't a fool, either.
But that was only because she was not self-opinionated, and was anxious, more anxious than any woman in all the North.
I know your stubborn pride and obstinacy, but you were wrong, you have disappointed me oh! how bitterly you have disappointed me! Then there was that business about the blacks. What a fool you were and how brutally self-opinionated! I don't wonder Bridget thought you an inhuman monster. Now I have said my worst, and you must take it as it is meant and forgive me.
Anyway, it was as plain as daylight that I had lost my time and money in bothering about Oppenstedt, and that I might as well give him up as the most incorrigible, stiff-necked, self-opinionated, blunder-headed ass and lunatic this side of Muggin.
The hardest cases to be managed are not of those who have been taught nothing, but of those who have been taught wrongly, who come to you self-opinionated, with ways that are distasteful to you, and contrary to the genius of your housekeeping.
Of one thing I can assure you, and that is, knowing your temper so well as I do, and foreseeing that which his will prove in after years you, Madame, self-opinionated, not to say headstrong, and he obstinate you will assuredly break more than one lance together." Poor Marie! She was little aware at that moment how soon so mournful a prophecy was to become a still more mournful reality.
Some of the best girls have been those who came directly from the ship, with no preparation but docility and some natural quickness. The hardest cases to be managed are not of those who have been taught nothing, but of those who have been taught wrongly who come self-opinionated, with ways which are distasteful, and contrary to the genius of one's housekeeping.
"When King-y-Yang learned how the venture had been carried out, he became most intolerably self-opinionated in his expressions towards Sen's mental attainments and the manner of his bringing up.
The episode would have been worth a good paragraph and a dozen conjectures to a reporter; the handsome man was the self-opinionated colleague, and the words Mina had heard, were they not clear proof of dissensions in the Cabinet? Disney stood stock-still on the path, not looking after his recalcitrant colleague, but down on the ground; his thoughts made him unconscious of things external.
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