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Updated: June 17, 2025
Of death she has no fears, for in the long chest in the kitchen lie a web of coarse white linen, two pennies covered with the same to keep down tired eyelids, decent white stockings, and a white cotton sun-bonnet a decorous death-suit truly and enough money in the little bag for self-respecting burial.
The last time that lady had extended a supine hand it had been to offer him one of the most serious affronts that can befall a self-respecting landlord; now the hand contained only cordiality, and in that spirit Mr. Cone took it. "You enjoyed your summer?" As Mr. Cone passed the pen for her to register. "Delightful! Altogether unique! Do you know, Mr.
And the consequence is that our art, what real art we have, is unlike any that there has been in the world before. It is so strange and so rebellious that we ourselves are shocked and amazed by it. Much of it, no doubt, is merely strange and rebellious, as much of early Christianity was merely strange and rebellious and so provoked the resentment and persecution of self-respecting pagans.
Unlike the other walls, which were of plaster, the back was constructed of six-inch-wide boards the cheapness of the lumber not concealed by its coat of ivory paint. No self-respecting builder had put in that wall of broad, horizontal boards....
I've asked Daniel to give me a holiday, so that I may go away and think over life in general. And he won't give me a holiday. It's very clear to me, Uncle Ernest, that no self-respecting man would be able to work under Daniel for long. Things are coming to a climax. I doubt if I shall be able to keep on here." "You evade the subject, which is your friendship with Sabina, Raymond.
A self-respecting girl owed it to herself, it seemed, not to recognize him. Curiously, so strong was his sense of the personal meaning of the insult that its more practical aspects for the moment altogether escaped him. But that was only for the moment.
But a neat and self-respecting girl will no more be slovenly under a scholastic gown than under any outward finery. If it is true that the sex would take cover in this way, and is liable to run down at the heel when it has a chance, then to the "examination" will have to be added a periodic "inspection," such as the West-Pointers submit to in regard to their uniforms.
"I've been talking to your grandfather for an hour or more," he began, "and I was just going to send my card after you. Haven't you a word of welcome for me, Ardea?" Her eyes were holding him at arm's length. "Do you think you deserve a welcome from any self-respecting woman?" she asked in low tones. His smile became a scowl the anger scowl of the Gordons. "Why shouldn't I?" he demanded.
I only sent for you to make such amends as I can to apologise most humbly to express my sorrow my shame my unspeakable humiliation that a child of mine a Pennycuick a girl I thought was nothing if not maidenly and self-respecting, and the very soul of honour and straightness and proper pride " "You speak as if she was not all that now " "NOW! and done a low, contemptible thing like that!
Only clear and unmistakable evidence of intention should lead one to infer a slight. It is not only more polite, but more self-respecting, to "take offense" slowly.
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