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Prigs, Tobymen, and Squires of the Cross! according to the laws of our Society, I resign into your hands that power which for two quarterly terms you have confided to mine, ready to sink into your ranks as a comrade, nor unwilling to renounce the painful honour I have borne, borne with much infirmity, it is true, but at least with a sincere desire to serve that cause with which you have intrusted me."
"But we're all prigs," Gilbert said once in reply to some one who sneered at Roger. "Ninian and Quinny and Roger and me, we're frightful prigs. That's because we're so much brainier than most people. Of course, Roger was Second Wrangler, and that affects a man, I suppose, but he's terribly clever, young Roger is!..." As they drove home, Gilbert told their news to Henry.
"You might as well try to stop the waves as check publicity in our day. Your munificence to the poor confound the lazy lot! and the gratitude of those pompous prigs, the deputation the presentation your admirable reply " "You never heard it, now " "Which, as you say, I was not so fortunate as to hear, and so must content myself with describing it all this is flying north, south, east, and west."
"Very true," answered Job, "and if it be possible to give Bess the slip, we will. However, let us not lose what we may get by grasping at what we may not; let us have the confession first, and we'll try for the release afterwards. I have another reason for this, Sir, which, if you knew as much of penitent prigs as I do, you would easily understand.
Did he still seek her good opinion? Was he, as well as herself, miserable alone? And then came like a stab the thought that he had joined her with Stocks. Did he class her with that alien world of prigs and dullards? She ceased to think, and avoiding her hostess and tea, ran over the wooden bridge to the slope of hill and climbed up among the red heather.
Still, the little one does learn is unforgettable, impressed upon the mind in a different way from the mere learning. And I suppose few people know everything about every place, even in their own countries. If they did, I'm sure they'd be prigs, and no one would want to know them!
Said Dolly Poole, who was looking exceedingly bilious, and had become a martyr to chronic headache, "My relations are prigs! Some of them give me the cold shoulder, others a great deal of jaw. But as for tin, I might as well scrape a flint for it.
Arising out of this is the third wholesome strain in the custom; I mean that it begins with the body and with our inevitable bodily brotherhood. All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. Those who will not begin at the bodily end of things are already prigs and may soon be Christian Scientists.
I turned wrathfully for a London street-boy's yell, let off at point-blank range, is, in effect, like the smack of an open hand but the inscription on the staring yellow poster that was held up for my inspection changed my anger into curiosity. "Horrible discovery in a watercress-bed!" Now, let, prigs deny it if they will, but there is something very attractive in a "horrible discovery."
But I must admit that they were mostly prigs, and that they were commercial. I said aloud, though more to myself than to Hammond, "Well, how could they be better than the age that made them?" "True," he said, "but their pretensions were higher." "Were they?" said I, smiling. "You drive me from corner to corner," said he, smiling in turn.
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