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She let him go downstairs again, to await Lady Maxwell's exit, and herself ran back to read her letter, her heart beating, for the address of the sender was on the envelope. When she had finished she threw it down, half suffocating. "So I am to be lectured and preached to besides. Good heavens! In his lofty manner, I suppose, that people talk of. Prig odious, insufferable prig!
The boy who follows virtue for its own sake would be, I fear, a sad prig, but the boy who follows a football for the sake of his house, may develop virtue and enjoy the process. But what are we to put on the other side of the account? If it be true that athletics is a fine school for character, what is the ground for the frequent complaint that the public schools make a "fetish" of athleticism?
The prudent Silk felt that to stay was to signify his approval of Mike's conduct in the case of the indiscreet countess. To leave with Cooper was to write himself down a prig, expose himself to the sarcasm of several past masters in the art of gibing, and to make in addition several powerful enemies.
"Then you'll drop the line of talk you started the other night?" "No." "Darry, old friend!" "I haven't changed my mind. Then, if I changed my attitude, wouldn't I be acting a false part?" "Don't be, a prig, Darry!" "Be a knave instead, eh?" "Darry, you ought to have been born a Puritan!" "I'm glad I wasn't," Dave smiled. "And are you enjoying yourself?" "No," Dave answered seriously. "I'm not.
He felt instinctively that the power of using the mind rather than the muscles was the key to success. He wished not only to wrestle with the best of them, but to be able to talk like the preacher, spell and cipher like the school-master, argue like the lawyer, and write like the editor. Yet he was as far as possible from being a prig. He was helpful, sympathetic, cheerful.
Her lovely face yearned up to his, and Ambrose's self-command tottered again but this was no moment for passion. His voice shook, but his eyes were as steady as hers. "I love you," he said quietly. "When you hated me most I was doing the best for you that I could. I I'm afraid I sound like a prig. But it is the truth. I stood out against you when I thought you were wrong because I loved you!"
It comes so suddenly to a stop that John Craig sits up in the other boat and clutches the arm of the professor. "Listen! I thought I heard a slight scream." "Nonsense!" exclaims Aunt Gwen. "That British prig " "Sir Lionel is a gentleman. He would not sully his reputation by a word or deed." "There again." "That time I heard it, too. Boatman, bend to your oars, and pull.
Yet he did not seem a prig. His manner, though dignified, was easy and natural; his eyes, though steady and penetrating, were kindly; his bearing had the repose of strength. It was too awful to contemplate what his estimate of herself would be if he knew; but then he must never know!
They parted, and Randal walked into one of the fashionable clubs. Leslie had little in common with these gentlemen, but he forced his nature to be agreeable to them, in consequence of a very excellent piece of worldly advice given to him by Audley Egerton. "Never let the dandies call you a prig," said the statesman.
"His soul is in Downing-street; his neckcloth is foolscap; his hair is sand; his legs are rulers; his vitals are tape and sealing-wax; he was a prig in his cradle; and never laughed since he was born, except three times at the same joke of his chief. I have the same liking for that man, Miss Amory, that I have for cold boiled veal." Upon which Blanche of course remarked, that Mr.
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