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If poor Polly's happiness lay in linking her tender arms round such a heartless prig as the sneak who has deceived her, she might have been happy now as happy as Raymond Raymond in the ballad, with the stone statue by his side. She is wretched because Mr. Serjeant Shirker worships money and ambition, and is a Snob and a coward.
Sometimes the favored child of chance was a Russian, sometimes an Englishman, sometimes an American. He was usually a myth, of course. As Mrs. Prig observed to Mrs. Camp, "there never was no sich person."
Ah, why is he not here? He is more fun than any one, but better than fun. He is " Montjoie's countenance was like a thunder-cloud big with fire and flame. "Trevor, I suppose you mean. I never thought that duffer could dance. He was a great sap at school, and a hideous little prig, giving himself such airs! But if you think all that of him " "It was not Mr. Trevor," said Bice.
Do say that you forgive me." She did not look at him, but, still slipping her needle with the minute, monotonous gesture back and forth, she nodded. "But say it," Jack protested. "Scold me as much as you please. It's all true; I'm a prig, I know. But say that you forgive me." A smile quivered on her cheek, and putting out her hand she answered: "There's nothing to forgive, Jack.
But well you mayn't believe there's no sech a creetur, for she wouldn't demean herself to look at you, and often has she said, when I have made mention of your name, which, to my sinful sorrow, I have done, "What, Sairey Gamp! debage yourself to HER!" Go along with you! 'I'm a-goin', ma'am, ain't I? said Mrs Prig, stopping as she said it. 'You had better, ma'am, said Mrs Gamp.
Is he the mysterious Muscovite adviser of the Dalai Lama? Who knows? He is a will-o'-the-wisp of the memoir-writers of the eighteenth century. Whenever you think you have a chance of finding him in good authentic State papers, he gives you the slip; and if his existence were not vouched for by Horace Walpole, I should incline to deem of him as Betsy Prig thought of Mrs. Harris.
"I should rather say he doesn't!" said Crow "at any rate, at Hawk Street, for a more stuck-up, disagreeable, self-righteous prig I never saw." "I think," said Hawkesbury, mildly, "you judge him rather hardly, Crow. Some of us thought the same at school; but I really think he means well."
I'll say that for you, old chap and I hope you don't think I'm a miserable prig." Still I replied nothing, but offered him one of my best cigars, taking the other one from him, and held the match while he lighted it which, between men, is sufficient evidence of good-feeling. He understood, and continued: "Of course you'll keep your eye on Mrs.
The worst of it is that one cannot do anything outside eating one's dinner or taking a walk without setting up to know more than one's neighbours. So I am; and I am often very sorry that I was never able to reach those more saintly classes who do not set up as instructors of other people. But one must take one's lot. Lohengrin He was a prig.
But he assured me he was not; and to farther satisfy me, he commenced a description of the banking and other operations the Young American Banking House of Pickle, Prig, & Flutter were engaged in. They had an office near Wall Street, furnished with the finest desks, carved in black walnut, and Brussels carpets, and stationery of a quality sufficient to carry on an endless amount of diplomacy.
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