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There is a beast in most men, and an archangel in lots, and a snob, and a prig, and a dormant hero, and an embryo poet. There are great possibilities in men; you have to watch and see which is coming out top and back that, and then half the time you are wrong. Of course, at father's age, possibilities are getting over; one or two things have come top and stay there." Mr.
"He is the Reverend Ronald Macdonald, and the most disagreeable, condescending, ill-tempered prig I ever met!" "Why, Francesca!" I exclaimed. "Lady Baird speaks of him as her favourite nephew, and says he is full of charm." "He is just as full of charm as he was when I met him," returned the girl nonchalantly; "that is, he parted with none of it this evening.
Agnes had coaxed her into a white dress as being the least startling garment she possessed, and she was like a Stothard picture with her high waist, her blue sash ribbon, her slender neck and brilliant head. She had already cast many curious glances at the Thornburgh's guest. 'Not a prig, at any rate, she thought to herself with satisfaction, 'so Agnes is quite wrong.
Is there one of us who can say that he never lost a day amid this too brief, too joyous, too entrancing term of existence? Not one. The aged Roman who, by-the-way, was somewhat of a prig used to go about moaning, "I have lost a day," if he thought he had not performed some good action or learned something in the twenty-four hours.
You would be a horrid prig if you hadn't. But you surely must know if your Liberalism is sincere, ingrained. There is no question that you are a hopeless aristocrat in essentials. But so have been certain of America's greatest patriots Washington and Hamilton, for instance. I do not see that it matters.
And as for Maurice," with a curl of her lips, "he is not a prig." "Well, neither am I, I hope," says Margaret, with perfect temper. She turns away, Colonel Neilson, who is furious with Mrs. Bethune, following her. As for the latter, she looks after Margaret until she is out of sight, and for once, perhaps, is sorry for her rudeness.
"Ban, if I tell you that I'm really devoted to my art, that I believe in it as as a mission, that the theater is as big a thing to me as The Patriot is to you, you won't think me an affected little prig, will you?" "Of course not, Betty. I know you." "Yes. I think you do. But you don't know your own paper.
The hero intrigues just as he wears a wig; because, if he did not, he would be a queer fellow, a city prig, perhaps a Puritan. All the agreeable qualities are always given to the gallant. All the contempt and aversion are the portion of the unfortunate husband. Take Dryden for example; and compare Woodall with Brainsick, or Lorenzo with Gomez. Take Wycherley; and compare Horner with Pinchwife.
If so, it would illustrate one of the beautiful uses of despotic privilege. The "old school" of manners has fallen into disrepute. Sir Charles Grandison is a comical rather than a courtly figure to this generation; and the man whose manners may be described as Grandisonian is usually called a pompous and grandiloquent old prig.
"See here, Judge," he said, greatly embarrassed by the real affection he felt, "I don't want to seem like a prig and appear to be sitting in judgment upon a man of your experience and position especially since I have the honour to be your son, and have made a good deal of trouble by a not irreproachable existence.
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