We know that the fact is irretrievable, and struggle to be proud of what we cannot help.

The Turk will tell you he has the honour to be a native of Stamboul; the Parisian will boast of his Faubourg; and the cockney exults in Wapping.

Personal conceit lies at the bottom of all; for we fancy that places to which _we_ belong, are not places to be ashamed of." "And yet I do not think Mr.Wycherly at all remarkable for conceit.

On the contrary, he is rather diffident and unassuming." This was said simply, but so sincerely, as to induce the listener to fasten his penetrating blue eye on the speaker, who now first took the alarm, and felt that she might have said too much.

At this moment the two young men entered, and a servant appeared to request that Admiral Bluewater would do Sir Gervaise Oakes the favour to join him, in the dressing-room of the latter.
Tom Wychecombe reported the condition of the dinner-table to be such, as to render it desirable for all but three and four-bottle men to retire.
Hanoverian toasts and sentiments were in the ascendant, and there was every appearance that those who remained intended to make a night of it.
This was sad intelligence for Mrs.Dutton, who had come forward eagerly to hear the report, but who now returned to the window, apparently irresolute as to the course she ought to take.