And indeed, pride, or something akin thereto, often holds check on sentiment.

My lord, there are those who like not to be detected in the possession of a heart." "Very true, Babbalanja; and I suppose that pride was at the bottom of your old Ponderer's heartless, unsentimental, bald-pated style." "Craving pardon, my lord is deceived.

Bardianna was not at all proud; though he had a queer way of showing the absence of pride.

In his essay, entitled,--"On the Tendency to curl in Upper Lips," he thus discourses.

"We hear much of pride and its sinfulness in this Mardi wherein we dwell: whereas, I glory in being brimmed with it;--my sort of pride.