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"It's very nice," replied Annie, making a desperate effort. "I thought you 'd like it," he said, with self-satisfied assurance. "It's queer that a fellow can't lay on the praise too thick to please a woman. By the way, I sent around a copy to Miss Roberts, signed with my initials. I thought you 'd like to have her see it."
Mrs. Valentin sighed. "Sometimes I wonder why we do cling to that old fetich of the East. Why can't we accept the fact that we are Western people? The question is, Shall we be the self-satisfied kind or the unsatisfied kind? Shall we be contented and limited, or discontented and grow?" "I guess we shall be limited enough, either way," Mr. Valentin retorted easily.
'So I may reckon upon you! I shouted after him. 'You may trust me! I heard his self-satisfied voice say: 'We'll talk to the old woman and transmit you her answer exactly. I will not enlarge on the train of thought aroused in me by the extraordinary fact Ardalion had related; but I am prepared to admit that I awaited the promised reply with impatience.
Dave scented patronage in his "citified" air; he and other young men at the table young men who helped about the farm resented everything about the stranger from the self-satisfied poise of his head to the aggressive gloss on his riding-boots. "Why, Dave," said Kate to her cousin in an undertone, "you look positively fierce. If I had a particle of vanity I should say you were jealous."
The dull people are not, as a rule, the simple people they are generally provided with a narrow and self-sufficient code; they are often entirely self-satisfied, and apt to disapprove of everything that is lively, romantic, and vigorous.
The self-satisfied grin faded from Isaiah's face and was succeeded by a look of surprised and righteous indignation. "Wha what's that?" he stammered. "What's that you're callin' me?" "I ain't callin' you nothin'. I'm givin' you some free advice, that's all.
I noticed one young girl whose looks would have drawn attention anywhere, whispering an address from beneath an enormous feathered hat to the driver of a taxicab, while her companion, a pleasant-looking, fresh-coloured boy, for he was scarcely more, entered the vehicle, a self-satisfied air upon his face. She sprang in also, and the cab with its occupants glided away out of my ken for ever.
Groby prodded him into complete wakefulness, and then the pettish self-satisfied pianist fairly lost his temper and slapped his domineering visitant on the hand.
He said this in a proud, self-satisfied, almost triumphant manner, and I felt profound pity, mingled with a feeling of vague contempt, for this vainglorious and simple reproducer of his species. I got into a carriage which he drove himself, and we set off through the town, a dull, sleepy, gloomy town where nothing was moving in the streets except a few dogs and two or three maidservants.
It is no use saying anything, Mamma always takes her side, you know, but she does aggravate me so! Even her movements irritate me, just the way she shakes her head and curls her lip, she is so self-satisfied. She thinks no one else knows anything. It must be a puzzle to her how the world ever got along before she came into it, and what it will do when she leaves it is a mystery!"
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