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The Saint replied: "You fool, how can two sit together and praise solitude, since by so doing they put an end to the thing they pretend to honour?" The Hermit, at that, was sorely abashed, for he had thought his speech out on the way, reciting it many times over; and now it appeared to him vainer than the crackling of thorns under a pot.
Jerome, the villain, seconded Madame's request so vigorously I could not decline, though he well knew I was no carpet knight capable of entertaining ladies fair on the tourney field of wit. "The Captain sings divinely, Madame, but is becomingly modest, as you see." The wretch laughed in his sleeve; I could have strangled him. "Ah, so rare," she retorted, "you men are vainer than my ladies."
There was a daffodil light over the evening sky in front of them, and it shone strangely on Jackanapes' hair and face. He turned with an odd look in his eyes that a vainer man than Tony Johnson might have taken for brotherly pride. Then he shook his mop and laughed at him. "Leave you? To save my skin? No, Tony, not to save my soul!" Mr. VALIANT summoned. His will. His last words.
And thus Sir Roger's life was written, while the tears were yet falling on his pillow at Boxall Hill. It was a pity that a proof-sheet could not have been sent to him. No man was vainer of his reputation, and it would have greatly gratified him to know that posterity was about to speak of him in such terms to speak of him with a voice that would be audible for twenty-four hours.
A new and humbled Manisty! shaken with a supreme longing and fear which seemed to have driven out for the moment all the other elements in his character those baser, vainer, weaker elements that she knew so well. The change in him was a measure of the smallness of her own past influence upon him; of the infinitude of her own self-deception.
The earthward and the heavenward are in each of us, striving for mastery; but no imagination is vainer than that we can indulge both, or practise the impartiality with which Montaigne's singular devotee lighted one candle to St. George and another to the dragon. If we would realise the type of perfect in the mind, we must not gratify "the penchant for revolt," but exert ourselves to lay
The buzz of admiration as he passed louder than in drawing-rooms more refined would have had sweeter music than Grisi's most artful quaver to a vainer man nay, once on a time to him. But sugar plums come too late! He gained the corner, and roused the solitary sitter. "My dear Mr. Hartopp, do you not remember me Guy Darrell?" "Mr.
In the Presidential election of 1852 Northerners generally reflected that they wanted quiet and had an instinct, curiously falsified, that the Democratic party was the more likely to give it them. The Whigs again proposed a hero, General Scott, a greater soldier than Taylor, but a vainer man, who mistakenly broke with all precedent and went upon the stump for himself.
Bouldon scored twelve by as many runs from four hits in succession. "Bravo, Tom! bravo, Bouldon!" resounded on all sides. Bouldon got into high spirits; he felt as if the whole success of the game depended on him, that he could work wonders. He made one or two more capital hits, but every instant he was growing vainer and more confident.
A vainer man, writing history, might have said that always, before everything else, he held in mind the greater interests before the less. But for me I prefer to be honest, and own myself human. In my glee at that forthcoming fight which promised to be the greatest and most furious I had known in all a long life of battling I will confess that Atlantis and her differing policies were clean forgot.
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