United States or Luxembourg ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Chippendale, one of the best actors in old comedy I ever knew, had taught me, and sweeping out of the room with the famous line from another Sheridan play: "Ladies and gentlemen, I leave my character behind me!" I see now that this was very priggish of me, but I am quite as uncompromising in my hatred of scandal now as I was then.
It's so kind of Donal to read something to us! I wonder what it's going to be." She uttered everything in a deliberate, old-fashioned way, with precise articulation, and a certain manner that an English mother would have called priggish, but which was only the outcome of Scotch stiffness, her father's rebukes, and her own sense of propriety. Donal read the ballad of Kemp Owen.
What did he mean by that? Wasn't he fooling himself with words, with priggish phrases? It was so easy to do that. And he was so mortally fatigued with this struggle in the dark. He had been thinking about it so deeply, so desperately, ever since he had faced it there, squarely, those endless black hours ago. He might have lost his way.
Upon this the tutor, a priggish youth, retorted hotly that he should hope his Cambridge studies, for which his parents had pinched themselves by many small economies, had at least taught him to discriminate between the agarici. Mr.
"It was well sung," replied Conolly " better than most of these blackguards know." "Then why dont you clap?" "Because she is not giving herself any trouble. That sort of thing, from a woman of her talent, is too cheap to say 'thank you' for." Marmaduke looked at him, and began to think that he was a priggish fellow after all.
Pale and bright, in her monotonous mourning, she was an image of intelligent purpose, of the passion of duty; but I asked myself whether any girl had ever had so charming an instinct as that which permitted her to laugh out, as for the joy of her difficulty, into the priggish old room.
It's the soul that must be developed. Alma laughed. 'I know it. And what is your receipt for developing the soul? Redgrave paused in his walk. Smiling, he gave a twist to his moustache, and appeared to meditate profoundly. 'The soul well, it has a priggish sound. Let us say the character; and that is developed through experience of life. 'I'm getting it. 'Are you?
He's a bit of a prig in fact, he's as priggish as he well can be but he's never done anything but run straight. I don't suppose he could go crooked if he tried. Hyacinth got up. 'Good-night, he said, 'and good-bye. I shan't go with you. 'Wait a minute, said Captain Quinn. 'I think I've done you one good turn to-night in stopping you going to South Africa.
Here the poor lady burst into tears. "Oh, don't, Lady Jane!" said Rosamund. "I am not a very good girl myself, and perhaps that is why I partly understand her. At the present moment I hate my position. I like Mr. and Mrs. Merriman very well, and some of the girls; but I can't stand that priggish Lucy. Perhaps that is why I comprehend Irene anyhow, if I may sometimes come to see her."
"It'll be great goin' doon the pit," he said, again feeling that he was going to be priggish. "Pickin' stanes is a' guid enough for a laddie for a wee while, an' for women, but you're the better to gang into the pit when you're the age. You get mair money for it. Of course, it's hard work, but I'll be earnin' as much as twa shillin's a day in the pit, and that'll be twelve shillin's a week."
Word Of The Day