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'Because I am conceited in all the ways which Rupert has mentioned, said Anne; 'I believe myself witty, and wise, and amiable, and useful, and agreeable, and I do not like taking advice, and I am very angry when my friends are abused, and I do believe I think I have the most exquisite brother in the world; and besides, if I said I was not conceited it would be the best possible proof of the contrary.
"Ramses XIII wishes to improve the lot of laborers and artisans, and give them every seventh day to rest; he forbids to beat them without trial, and perhaps he will find land for them." "But I tell thee that he is light-minded," said the irritated Menes. "Two months ago I sent him a great plan for lessening the toil of laborers, and he laughed at me. He is conceited and ignorant!"
And you spoke of his good looks yourself this very mornin'. Why don't you like the good-lookin' ones?" "Oh, because they're always conceited and patronizing and superior and spoiled. I can just imagine this Mr. Ellery of yours strutting about in sewing circle or sociables, with Annabel and Georgianna Lothrop and the rest simpering and gushing and getting in his way: 'O Mr.
I have been watching the domestic correspondence in your columns with much interest, and thought of offering you a short analysis of it when you saw good to bring it to a close, and perhaps a note or two of my own experience, being somewhat conceited on the subject just now, because I have a gardener who lets me keep old-fashioned plants in the greenhouse, understands that my cherries are grown for the blackbirds, and sees me gather a bunch of my own grapes without making a wry face.
My Dear Pat: What a good fellow you are! Your letter, just forwarded here, has been like for me a draught from the "cup which cheers but not " No, on second thoughts I can't go on with the quotation "but not inebriates." I rather think the cup has inebriated me a little. Anyhow, it has made me a bit conceited.
His conceited and tyrannical disposition did not allow him to let it dwindle in his hands for want of use.
The girls all stopped talking, and gazed up at Cassandra with astonishment in their faces. "I have overheard you," said Miss Weldon calmly. "I presume you are alluding to Miss Craven?" "We are talking about Ruth Craven," said Kate Rourke; "and you will excuse me, Cassie, but I never saw a girl more chock-full of pride. She is so conceited that she is intolerable."
What I have just said may seem very selfish and conceited; so much the worse! I do not know how to lie." The longer the smith spoke, the less troubled became Mother Bunch.
"And what's your own lot?" bellowed the Parson "one dozen of sweepings of France, one dozen of the picked scum of our country, and one conceited young whipper-snapper, who swaggers about in breeches and boots all day and was never on a horse in his life to my certain knowledge!" The Gentleman waved his hand. "Take the consequences then," he said. "A rivederci."
"Pretty; very; foolish manners I thought; Marjory looked bewildered by her." "The manners of girls have changed, I fancy, since my day; and she isn't a boy-girl, like our nice Marjory, either?" "No; she is a girl-girl; a pretty, forward, conceited girl-girl," said the ruthless Augustine. "Lady Elliston is coming to see you this afternoon; she asked me to tell you; she says she wants a long talk."
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