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This wilfulness was attributed to his youth, and the impatience of his amour-propre. Madame Roland, persuaded that this young man was passionately attached to liberty, took his reserve for timidity, and these petty treasons for independence. The common cause was a cover for all. Partiality transforms the most sinister tokens into favour or indulgence.
But that she should come back, that she should smile, make him sit facing her, talk about Maddalena as she had talked, and then then look at him like that! His amour-propre, his long fidelity, his deep affection all were outraged. Vere came down the steps and found him there. "Gaspare!" He got up instantly when he heard her voice, rubbed his eyes, and yawned. "I was asleep, Signorina."
We note him at first as entirely devoted to these painful investigations, and we are apt to confound his attitude with that of La Rochefoucauld, the weary Titan, who sighs contemptuously as he holds up to censure the globe of human amour-propre.
He says, "The praise which is given us serves to fix us in the practice of virtue," and if that is true, amour-propre must be practically useful.
"You will spoil all, destroy the mirth of the piece, the enjoyment of the company, sacrifice everything to your amour-propre. This would be too bad monsieur will never permit this?" She sought his eye. I watched, likewise, for a glance. He gave her one, and then he gave me one. "Stop!" he said slowly, arresting St. Pierre, who continued her efforts to drag me after her.
Nor was wounded amour-propre mended by an exclamation in the room behind his chair, the accents of Colonel Stanistreet thick with contempt: "The Lone Wolf! Faugh!" Presently Blensop came back, closed the window, and passed blindly by Lanyard, his reappearance saluted by Stanistreet in tones that shook with contained temper. "You saw that animal outside the walls?"
The inn of Breil had not an engaging face, but it was animated by the spirit of a Brillat Savarin, by which we were provided with a wonderful dinner in numerous courses. We could not escape from it, lest we hurt the amour-propre of the cook, and it was late when we were ready for our last sortie.
In spite of the fact that nobody ever mentioned his article to him after it appeared full of typographical errors which he thought intentional he got a certain satisfaction from believing that the citizens of Lincoln had meekly accepted the epithet 'coarse barbarians. 'You see how it is, he said to me, 'where there is no chivalry, there is no amour-propre. When I met him on his rounds now, I thought he carried his head more disdainfully than ever, and strode up the steps of front porches and rang doorbells with more assurance.
We are loved, or we are not loved; if a man entertains jealousy under either of these circumstances, it is a feeling absolutely unprofitable to him; jealousy may be explained as fear, fear in love. But to doubt one's wife is to doubt one's self. To be jealous is to exhibit, at once, the height of egotism, the error of amour-propre, the vexation of morbid vanity.
Thus you will have created in the bosom of your home a comedy in five acts, in which you play, to your profit, the brilliant role of Figaro or Almaviva; and for some months you will amuse yourself so much the more, because your amour-propre, your vanity, your all, were at stake.
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