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Mrs Gamp, deriving from this exhibition of repartee some clue to the state of Mrs Prig's feelings, instantly conducted her upstairs; deeming that the sight of pickled salmon might work a softening change. But Betsey Prig expected pickled salmon. It was obvious that she did; for her first words, after glancing at the table, were: 'I know'd she wouldn't have a cowcumber!
"This sort of thing won't do," said Gilks to his friend one day, shortly after Riddell's talk with Wyndham. "The young 'un's cut our acquaintance." "Hope we shall recover in time," said Silk, sneering. "Yes; he's gone decidedly `pi. the last week." "It's all that reverend prig's doing!" growled Gilks. "I mean to spoil his little game for him, though," added he. "How'll you do it?" asked Silk.
It was the nearest possible approach to a very decided difference of opinion between these ladies; but Mrs Prig's impatience for the meal being greater at the moment than her impatience of contradiction, she replied, for the present, 'Nobody, if you don't, Sairah, and prepared herself for tea. For a quarrel can be taken up at any time, but a limited quantity of salmon cannot.
Oh! but Polly must have explained, must have convinced him that owing to a prig's self-confidence they were all equally foolish, equally misled. Unless Hubert ? But then, how is she at fault? In imagination she says it all through Polly's lips. The words glow hot and piteous, carrying her soul with them. But that face in the oak chair does not change.
Perhaps, indeed, the greater danger is on the prig's side; but then you must remember that the greater honour is so too.
As though being full of gross appetites was truth, and discipline and training some sort of falsity!" "Artificiality. And begetting pride, Benham, begetting a prig's pride." For a time there was more than the heat of the day between them.... The things that Benham had come down to discuss were thrust into the background by the impassioned materialism of Prothero.
"He was a muff as a boy a prig with a prig's memory under all his shallow, showy surface. I'm frank with you; I never could take my cousin either respectfully or seriously, but I've known him to take his own anger so seriously that years after he has visited it upon those who had really wronged him. And he is equipped for retaliation if he chooses.
Barrington had precise intelligence of the marvellous snuff-box the Empress's own gift to her lover; he knew also how he might meet the Prince at Drury Lane; he had even discovered that the Prince for safety hid the jewel in his vest. But the Prince felt the Prig's hand upon the treasure, and gave an instant alarm.
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