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Updated: June 29, 2025
I cannot tell you how vaingloriously I walked the streets; my head was in the clouds. I felt the airs of heaven playing about it, and fancied it already encircled by a halo of literary glory.
The thought of young Carver's public snubbing before his friends was my one unmixed satisfaction. I rather imagined that he was more uncomfortable than I was or could be. Lute crowed vaingloriously over his own good judgment in leaving for home early. "I don't know how 'twas," he declared. "Somethin' seemed to tell me we was in for a turrible tempest.
For Andy was but human, that he dreamed of these things; besides, does not the jumping through blazing hoops and over sagging bunting while one rides, whet insiduously one's appetite for the plaudits of the crowd? The reality was different. He was in Great Falls, but he had not ridden vaingloriously down Central Avenue surrounded by the Happy Family, and watched by the gaping populace.
But meanwhile, until she could see Peter alone, there was Martin to deal with, Martin who was leaning forward, vaingloriously reciting to her long speeches he had made to this superior or that. "Martin," she said, impetuously interrupting him, "I've got to talk to you! I've meant to write it so many times, I've had it in my mind ever since I left Red Creek!" "Shoot!"
If left alone for a moment he would walk over fences with it, or through the most tangled thickets, if thereby seemed the most direct way to reach Jabe; and once, when Jabe, vaingloriously and at great speed, drove him in to the Cross Roads, he smashed the vehicle to kindling-wood in the amiable determination to follow his master into the Cross Roads store.
Often I stood a moment by the fence to look up and around me. Through the clear morning air I could hear the roosters crowing vaingloriously from the barnyard, and the robins were singing, and occasionally from the distant road I heard the rumble of a wagon.
You're some desert rat, now ain't you, Charley? You helped pack the mud to build the butte and stoped out the guest chamber down in hell! Well, here's luck!" and he nodded his health. "Yes, you bet I'm an old-timer," boasted Death Valley vaingloriously. "I was at Panamint and Ballarat, and all them camps. Me and old Shorty Harris we used to lead every rush we was first at Greenwater and Skidoo.
The captain's triumphant exuberance continued to bubble over. He chuckled and laughed and crowed vaingloriously over his success in keeping the secret ever since noon. "I was bound I wouldn't tell, Serena," he declared. "I was bound I wouldn't. I told John over the 'phone; I said: 'I won't tell a soul you're comin', John.
He felt that he ought to read the account from beginning to end, but also that he could not. Azuba, however, when it was shown to her, had no such feeling. She bore it to the kitchen, read it all, and returned to crow vaingloriously. "Well, there now, Captain Daniel!" she exclaimed. "Ain't it wonderful! Ain't it grand! Ain't you a lucky man to have a wife as notorious as she's gettin' to be!
And then, one day, Scott's memory failed him in his invocation. There came a familiar phrase or two, and then a babble of meaningless syllables, ending in a long-drawn and relieved Amen. An instant later, Scott lifted up his head. "Mo ther," he shrilled vaingloriously; "I forgetted how it ought to go; but didn't I put up a bully bluff?" And, in consequence, Mrs.
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