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The latter felt immensely superior to his friend, but he inclined to condescension. He adopted toward him an air of patronizing good humor. His self-pride was now entirely restored.
Cinq-Mars was confounded at this observation, which hurt his self-pride, and, approaching the King, he said: "You are right, Sire; but there can be no harm in passing an hour or two in listening to good conversation.
And God knows we did not only pity him, we liked him and if we could in some often ridiculous manner assist the Machine-Fixer I think we nearly always did. The assistance to which I refer was wholly spiritual; since the minute Machine-Fixer's colossal self-pride eliminated any possibility of material assistance.
Yet except for a detail of months or weeks he was as irremediably ruined as though already the tape of the stock-ticker had spelled out its unemotional announcement, "Hamilton Burton cannot meet his obligations." He had been wounded through the one vulnerable joint of his armor: his great self-pride and unquestioning assurance were struck to the quick of the heart. His day was done.
Self-will, self-pride, and self-righteousness were big in him, and so the supper had ended in silence, and with a little attack of coughing on the part of Cassy, which made her angry at herself. Then the boy had been put to bed, and she had come back to await the expected outburst.
Cinq-Mars was confounded at this observation, which hurt his self-pride, and, approaching the King, he said: "You are right, Sire; but there can be no harm in passing an hour or two in listening to good conversation.
I feared him as I had once feared an imaginary God, but I did not hate him. One curious little fragment of wisdom came to me as the result of my experience a useless fragment perhaps, but something that has in one way altered my opinion of my fellow-men. I have learnt that a measure of self-pride, of complacency, is essential to every human being.
The Queen turned to Ozma. "Do you dare make such a claim?" she asked. By this time Ozma had made up her mind as to the character of this haughty and disdainful creature, whose self-pride evidently led her to believe herself superior to all others. "I did not come here to quarrel with your Majesty," said the girl Ruler of Oz, quietly.
Cinq-Mars was confounded at this observation, which hurt his self-pride, and, approaching the King, he said: "You are right, Sire; but there can be no harm in passing an hour or two in listening to good conversation.
It wasn't his self-pride that was injured; that had become so battered there was little of it left; but he had set his whole heart on winning this girl and felt that he could not give her up. Anger toward Weldon was prominent amongst his emotion. He declared between his set teeth that if Louise was lost to him she should never marry Weldon.
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