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"Before I venture I should like to know on whose side the Princess is." "Ah, dangler! You think too much of the women! Some day you will be let in through that failing of yours!" Cayrol smiled conceitedly, and went away. Marechal sat down at his desk, and took out a sheet of paper. "I must tell Pierre that everything is going on well here," he murmured.
"Before I venture I should like to know on whose side the Princess is." "Ah, dangler! You think too much of the women! Some day you will be let in through that failing of yours!" Cayrol smiled conceitedly, and went away. Marechal sat down at his desk, and took out a sheet of paper. "I must tell Pierre that everything is going on well here," he murmured.
And, as luck would have it, all the peasants saw us at that moment and they kicked up a shindy at once. ‘You did that on purpose!’ ‘No, not on purpose.’ ‘Yes, you did, on purpose!’ Well, they shouted, ‘Take him to the justice of the peace!’ They took me, too. ‘You were there, too,’ they said, ‘you helped, you’re known all over the market!’ And, for some reason, I really am known all over the market,” Kolya added conceitedly. “We all went off to the justice’s, they brought the goose, too.
Though nominally commander of the squadron, Paul was not so in effect. Most of his captains conceitedly claimed independent commands. One of them in the end proved a traitor outright; few of the rest were reliable. As for the ships, that commanded by Paul in person will be a good example of the fleet.
But who is Ione? 'Ah! you have but just come to Pompeii, or you would deserve ostracism for your ignorance, said Lepidus, conceitedly; 'not to know Ione, is not to know the chief charm of our city. 'She is of the most rare beauty, said Pansa; 'and what a voice! 'She can feed only on nightingales' tongues, said Clodius. 'Nightingales' tongues! beautiful thought! sighed the umbra.
He bore himself with becoming dignity, taking his place in refined society as one who had a right there, without showing himself either conceitedly aggressive or meanly servile. He took his part in conversation, but no more than his part, and expressed himself with freedom and decision. His conversation, in fact, astonished the literati even more than his poems had done.
"Is it like me?" he asked, conceitedly, as they bound some cloths to a piece of stick, in such a way that they bore some slight resemblance to a bird. "Dear me, what a pity! I'm not moulting, or you might have had one or two of my feathers to stick on for a tail," he added. "H'm! I shouldn't have thought you had any to spare for moulting purposes," said the Archæopteryx.
"I think the trouble is not there," responded Temple. "Most men understand their womankind fairly well. The trouble is that instead of respecting the individualities of women as something to which they have a right, most men conceitedly assume that it is their duty to repress those individualities, to mould their wives and daughters to a model of their own shaping.
'What is your power, my friend? asked the demon of the serpent. Whereupon the serpent replied, 'I have the treasures of seven kings underneath me! What is yours, my friend? Then the demon said conceitedly, 'The King's daughter is possessed of me. She is always ill; some day I shall kill her.
"That effect's only for the first few minutes, like a stage curtain hiding the real thing." "And the real thing is only for the elect, like us," said Angela, conceitedly. "Outsiders can't get behind the curtain. Let me tell you what I see." "And if we see the same thing?" "Why, it would be a sign that we'd been friends in a former incarnation, wouldn't it?"
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