Vanity
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Thenceforward the
vanity
of an upstart, morbid and easily offended, had to fight a nascent interest.
He was afraid of seeing Mathilde's
vanity
wounded.
These pleasures of reputation and petty
vanity
are nothing to me.
'Fie!' said M. Pirard, and thrust him away; 'what is the meaning of this worldly
vanity?
Here are five hundred francs which I beg you to distribute without display, and with no mention of my name, among the needy, who are poor now as I was once, and whom you are doubtless assisting as in the past you assisted me.'Julien was intoxicated with ambition and not with vanity; he still applied a great deal of his attention to his outward appearance.
'"Whatever induced your friend," M. de Frilair said to me just now, "to go and arouse and attack the petty
vanity
of that middle-class aristocracy?
'My first duty is towards you,' she said to him as she embraced him; 'I have fled from Verrieres ...'Julien had no petty
vanity
in his relations with her, he told her of all his weak moments.
Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet
vanity
to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning.
They were jubilant with
vanity
over their new grandeur and the illustrious trouble they were making.
It gratified all the vicious
vanity
that was in him; and so, instead of winning him, it only "set him up" the more and made him the more diligent to avoid betraying that he knew she was about.
But after a while she finds that beneath this goodly exterior, all is vanity, the flattery which once charmed her soul, now grates harshly upon her ear; the ballroom has lost its charms; and with wasted health and imbittered heart, she turns away with the conviction that earthly pleasures cannot satisfy the longings of the soul!"
I had with all these the common
vanity
of my sex, viz.
But that which I was too vain of was my ruin, or rather my
vanity
was the cause of it.
You are none of them that want a fortune, whatever else you want.''I understand you, brother,' replies the lady very smartly; 'you suppose I have the money, and want the beauty; but as times go now, the first will do without the last, so I have the better of my neighbours.''Well,' says the younger brother, 'but your neighbours, as you call them, may be even with you, for beauty will steal a husband sometimes in spite of money, and when the maid chances to be handsomer than the mistress, she oftentimes makes as good a market, and rides in a coach before her.'I thought it was time for me to withdraw and leave them, and I did so, but not so far but that I heard all their discourse, in which I heard abundance of the fine things said of myself, which served to prompt my vanity, but, as I soon found, was not the way to increase my interest in the family, for the sister and the younger brother fell grievously out about it; and as he said some very disobliging things to her upon my account, so I could easily see that she resented them by her future conduct to me, which indeed was very unjust to me, for I had never had the least thought of what she suspected as to her younger brother; indeed, the elder brother, in his distant, remote way, had said a great many things as in jest, which I had the folly to believe were in earnest, or to flatter myself with the hopes of what I ought to have supposed he never intended, and perhaps never thought of.
From this time my head ran upon strange things, and I may truly say I was not myself; to have such a gentleman talk to me of being in love with me, and of my being such a charming creature, as he told me I was; these were things I knew not how to bear, my
vanity
was elevated to the last degree.
This young gentleman had fired his inclination as much as he had my vanity, and, as if he had found that he had an opportunity and was sorry he did not take hold of it, he comes up again in half an hour or thereabouts, and falls to work with me again as before, only with a little less introduction.
I had a most unbounded stock of
vanity
and pride, and but a very little stock of virtue.
Thus I gave up myself to a readiness of being ruined without the least concern and am a fair memento to all young women whose
vanity
prevails over their virtue.
I told him how imprudently his brother had managed himself, in making himself so public; for that if he had kept it a secret, as such a thing out to have been, I could but have denied him positively, without giving any reason for it, and he would in time have ceased his solicitations; but that he had the vanity, first, to depend upon it that I would not deny him, and then had taken the freedom to tell his resolution of having me to the whole house.
I suppose it might have been formerly the mother's, for it was too big for the child's wear, but that perhaps the
vanity
of the mother, to have her child look fine at the dancing-school, had made her let the child wear it; and no doubt the child had a maid sent to take care of it, but she, careless jade, was taken up perhaps with some fellow that had met her by the way, and so the poor baby wandered till it fell into my hands.
I dressed me to all the advantage possible, I assure you, and for the first time used a little art; I say for the first time, for I had never yielded to the baseness of paint before, having always had
vanity
enough to believe I had no need of it.
But he did not seem to have an over-dose of
vanity
for an artist; he was not in dire despair when he had to put aside his brushes.
In short he felt that while Anselmo's absence afforded time and opportunity he must press the siege of the fortress, and so he assailed her self-esteem with praises of her beauty, for there is nothing that more quickly reduces and levels the castle towers of fair women's
vanity
than
vanity
itself upon the tongue of flattery.
All these and a variety of other great exploits are, were and will be, the work of fame that mortals desire as a reward and a portion of the immortality their famous deeds deserve; though we Catholic Christians and knights-errant look more to that future glory that is everlasting in the ethereal regions of heaven than to the
vanity
of the fame that is to be acquired in this present transitory life; a fame that, however long it may last, must after all end with the world itself, which has its own appointed end.
'No offence, sir, no offence,' replied Sam; 'you're wery right, though; it ain't the right sort o' thing, ven mothers-in-law is young and good-looking, is it, Sir?''It's all vanity,' said Mr. Stiggins.
Mr. Weller closed one eye, and shook his head from side to side, in a manner which was highly gratifying to the personal
vanity
of the gentleman in blue.
After Mrs. Weller and the red-nosed gentleman had commented on this inhuman usage in a very forcible manner, and had vented a variety of pious and holy execrations against its authors, the latter recommended a bottle of port wine, warmed with a little water, spice, and sugar, as being grateful to the stomach, and savouring less of
vanity
than many other compounds.
Lady Middleton piqued herself upon the elegance of her table, and of all her domestic arrangements; and from this kind of
vanity
was her greatest enjoyment in any of their parties.
She was remarkably quick in the discovery of attachments, and had enjoyed the advantage of raising the blushes and the
vanity
of many a young lady by insinuations of her power over such a young man; and this kind of discernment enabled her soon after her arrival at Barton decisively to pronounce that Colonel Brandon was very much in love with Marianne Dashwood.
Her mother, sisters, Fanny, all had been conscious of his regard for her at Norland; it was not an illusion of her own
vanity.
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