Vanity is similar to pride, but usually involves the admiration of one's physical appearance rather than skills or talents. Somebody who believes that they are beautiful or spends a considerable amount of time tending to their looks is likely to be described as vain.
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she in the house; and, kept at his office, he was obliged to take an
reached the countryside opening in the familiar hilly vistas he had, in
an hour, a sense.html">sense of having come a long way to a scene from which he had
contained--safe was the word which came to him. He was glad to be
dreaded, for no plainly comprehended reason, his return home. The
it been possible he would have cancelled the past forty-eight hours;
very lively sense of guilt. He made a conventional effort to see his
of adultery--but it failed before the conviction.html">conviction that the whole thing
the present, and the future dreariness. There had been no suggestion of
exactly as though, struggling to the limit of endurance against a
was that the entire situation was utterly different from the general
stronger--the individual truth or the imposed dogmatic weight of the
there was to be no repetition of last night; there would be no affair.
Lee Randon had completely and sharply focussed the most adverse
and bare of any chance of pleasure. His need for honesty, however
reconstructed it in every detail--he saw the moments, doubtful and
servants, with their penetration of the tone of an establishment,
with quick embraces in the automobile, and the final indignities of
inevitable exposure followed, the furies and hysterical reproaches.
the world would be invincible, crushing; holding solidly its front
him a conviction of sin in which they would unavoidably have.
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