You are shameless!” he said angrily.
“Nonsense! You only say so because I drove your horses,” she answered. “Never mind! I will engage not to do so again.”
“I’ll take care of that!” he retorted. “Let me tell you, my dear Cousin, that I should be better pleased if you would refrain from meddling in the affairs of my family!”
“Now, that,” said Sophy, “I am very glad to know, because if ever I should desire to please you I shall know just how to set about it. I daresay I shan’t, but one likes to be prepared for any event, however unlikely.”
He turned his head to look at her, his eyes narrowed, and their expression was by no means pleasant. “Are you thinking of being so unwise as to cross swords with me?” he demanded. “I shan’t pretend to misunderstand you, Cousin, and I will leave you in no doubt of my own meaning! If you imagine that I will ever permit that puppy to marry my sister, you have yet something to learn of me!”
“Pooh!” said Sophy. “Mind your horses, Charles, and don’t talk fustian to me.
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Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?
John Kennedy TooleTags: absurd satire attitude intellectual hilarious sheep ass contempt curmudgeon pompous meatsacks mouthbreathers pronouncements
Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned the colonel for their master, might render better homage to the goddess, Liberty, in nightly dreams upon the oven of a Russian Serf.
Charles DickensHe was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.
Edward St. AubynTags: englishmen pompous
If you want women to love you, then don't be cross in front of them and don't go all pompous... -Anna Petrovna in Ivanov
Anton ChekhovCommercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making
devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or
pompous.
Tags: comedy irony pretentious-weenies naivete pompous
The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting that there is much more beneath this little book.
Michael Ben ZehabeTags: suicide quitting homeschool pompous jonah self-righteous bible-commentary
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