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Across this it hopped conceitedly, as over a stage on which it figured becomingly; and after a momentary hesitation, with a little spring, it rose and winged its way in the same direction which the other birds had taken, and was quickly lost in thick forest to the left. "Here," said Feltram, "this is the tree." "I remember it well!
For, conceitedly or not, I had always felt that Charley rather depended on me that I had rather to take care of him than to look for counsel from him. The weary miles rolled away. Early in the morning we reached Minstercombe. There I got a carriage, and at once continued my journey. I met no one at the house-door, or in the kitchen, and walked straight up the stair to my uncle's room.
Under this attention he swelled, grew pleased, bland, and condescending, wearing an oily smile and bowing most conceitedly whenever anybody noticed him. He even began to drop his severity and silence at the table, toward the end of the week, and expanded into dignified conversation, mainly addressed to Mr. Tanner about the political situation in the State of Arizona.
"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.
The Englishmen, quite interested, immediately asked: "Ha! and what is the name of this village?" The Prussian replied: "Pharsbourg." He added: "We caught those French scoundrels by the ears." And he glanced toward M. Dubuis, laughing conceitedly into his mustache. The train rolled on, still passing through hamlets occupied by the victorious army.
I was so much disconcerted at this sneering speech, that I said not a word; though I have since thought my vexation both stimulated and delighted him. "The air we breathe here, however, Ma'am," continued he, very conceitedly, "though foreign to that you have been accustomed to, has not I hope been at variance with your health?" "Mr.
At this moment behold the Coxcomb, nodding his head in the dark, "Your servant, sir," he would say to one over his shoulder. "I hope you are quite well," said he to another. "Is there any service which I can render you," to a third, smiling conceitedly. "Your beauty ravishes my heart," said he to the bouncing wench.
They try, conceitedly and godlessly, to walk by the light of their own eyes to make their own way plain before their face for themselves.
Zverkov, of course, won't pay." "Of course not, since we are inviting him," Simonov decided. "Can you imagine," Ferfitchkin interrupted hotly and conceitedly, like some insolent flunkey boasting of his master the General's decorations, "can you imagine that Zverkov will let us pay alone? He will accept from delicacy, but he will order half a dozen bottles of champagne."
The Englishmen, quite interested, immediately asked: "Ha! and what is the name of this village?" The Prussian replied: "Pharsbourg." He added: "We caught those French scoundrels by the ears." And he glanced toward M. Dubuis, laughing conceitedly into his mustache. The train rolled on, still passing through hamlets occupied by the victorious army.
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