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Then the Reserve-man turned, facing aft. "Let her go, George," he said, raising his voice. The trawler fussed ahead like a self-important hen that has laid an egg. There was a violent upheaval in the water astern, and a column of foam and wreckage leaped into the air with a deafening roar.
The quarantine officers came on board, little, brown men in uniform, absurdly self-important.
It has, as was expected, its adversaries and supporters. Which will preponderate is yet to be decided. The former more than probably will be most active, as the major part of them will, it is to be feared, be governed by sinister and self-important motives, to which everything in their breasts must yield....
The self-important annoyance of the tone seemed to appeal to whatever vestige of appreciation for the humorous, chains and degradation had suffered to linger in the convict's brain, for a faint smile crossed his features. "I beg your pardon, sir," he said. "Pray, go on."
Caught too, Mary's hurried rejoinder "For mercy's sake, Mrs. Cooper, not a hint of that to any living soul" before the two women, sensible of the swish and patter of her self-important entry, turned and moved forward to meet, or could it be? to intercept her. Their faces bore a singular expression, in Mrs. Cooper's case of sloppy, in Mary's of stern yet vivid alarm.
Hopkins said nothing more. Susy saw that she could have her own way, and as soon as dinner was over, without even waiting to help her mother to put the place in order, she started on her walk. She felt pleased and self-important. The day was a frosty one, and the sunset promised to be glorious. The road to Mrs. Church's house was flat and long and pleasant to walk on.
There was a difference even in the pride of the two, that removed them farther from each other, than if one had been the proudest and the other the humblest specimen of humanity in all creation. He, self-important, unbending, formal, austere.
He concluded this sentence with a self-important cough, as one who has laid down the law in an indisputable manner. "Effects!" said Mrs. Saddletree, "what effects has the puir wean? he was in rags when his mother died; and the blue polonie that Effie made for him out of an auld mantle of my ain, was the first decent dress the bairn ever had on.
"Very well, and now take the other side. Take the severest test I ever tried. Two respectable professors of physics not Newtons, you understand, but good, worthy, self-important professors of physics a lady anxious to prove there's a life beyond the grave, a journalist who wants stuff to write a person, that is, who gets his living by these researches just as I do undertook to test me.
Yet he consoled himself by remembering also that after the shower of holy water, the Latin phrases of the padre, and the ceremonies, the horses had become so vain and self-important that they would not even allow him, Sinong, a good Christian, to put them in harness, and he had not dared to whip them, because a tertiary sister had said that they were sanctified.
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