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You go and teach yourselves manners that's what you'd better do, and don't come nosing about here as if we couldn't get on without a parcel of snuffing young prigs like you to tell us what to do. That's what I think of you." And the honest British matron tossed her head in a huff, and went on with her patchwork.
Job replied, in the same key, and in words which were perfectly unintelligible to me; the light disappeared; Job moved round, as if turning a corner. I heard the heavy bolts and bars of a door slowly withdraw; and in a few moments, a harsh voice said, in the thieves' dialect, "Ruffling Job, my prince of prigs, is that you? are you come to the ken alone, or do you carry double?"
It is too good a thing to keep to myself any longer, and now that I know you so well, I am perfectly willing to trust you. Would you believe it? I know the Rockmores of Germantown. I know them very well, and hate them for a lot of prigs. But I never told Stephen Petter. Not I. In some way or other he took it for granted that I did not possess the valuable acquaintanceship, and I let him think so.
Oh that they had driven away the prigs, and left the pigs! The sky begins to droop with darkness and all birds and blossoms to descend unfaltering into the healthy underworld where things slumber and grow. There was just one true phrase of Mr. Marinetti's about himself: "the feverish insomnia." The whole universe is pouring headlong to the happiness of the night.
The thing is the more insufferable, because they absolutely know nothing of the subject, and have about as much real appreciation of works of genius as a pig possesses for the inventions of Watt or Daedalus. While prigs of the above description are eternally chattering about such topics, men who are really eminent in the fine arts never say a word on the subject.
What I speak of is the medium itself, of course, that we were most immediately steeped in I am glancing now at no particular turn of our young attitude in it, and I can scarce sufficiently express how little it could have conduced to the formation of prigs.
"I have made none, sir but, if you urge me, I can only say, that, if he has all these good qualities, it is to be regretted that he does not look and speak a little more like a gentleman." "A gentleman! he is as much a gentleman as any of your formal prigs not the exact Cambridge cut, may be Curse your English education!
"What a delightful place this is!" he went on as they walked together through a long corridor. "But what is the matter with the people? They don't mix. I would not have believed that there were so many prigs in the British Isles." Some such candid opinion had occurred to Spencer; but, being an American, he thought that perhaps he might be mistaken.
Barlow's instituting a comparison between the clown's conduct at his studies, drinking up the ink, licking his copy-book, and using his head for blotting-paper, and that of the already mentioned young prig of prigs, Harry, sitting at the Barlovian feet, sneakingly pretending to be in a rapture of youthful knowledge. I thought how soon Mr.
But whatever is definitely unclean is definitely evil, and should be both avoided and discouraged. To assume, however, a pious demeanour and to appear to be shocked is a fatal method of protest. Christians have no business to be shocked, nor are they meant to be prigs. There are other forms of social pressure which are more effective.
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