"Besides, does keeping one's engagements constitute a prig, Isabelle?

But, however the probabilities may appear, Miss Wimple's Hoop was a shaved-whalebone fact; and the quilted petticoat would never have been missed, but for the officious scrutiny of the eyes, and the provoking prating of the tongues, of a sophisticated few who marvelled greatly at the pliancy and the "perfect set" of Miss Wimple's Alboni,"and that demure little prig, too!

Nor was he a bit of a prig, Miss Winchelsea said, and indeed she detested prigs.

Kit smiled as he remembered that when Janet Bell tried to flirt with him he had been rather humiliated and felt himself a prig.

In a neat little cottage, some five miles from town, Lived a pretty young maiden, by name Daphne Brown, Like a butterfly, pretty and airy: In a village hard by lived a medical prig, With a rubicund nose, and a full-bottomed wig, Apollo, the apothecary.

" "Aunt Marthe a prig!

" "I am not preparing myself for a governess, that I should make a point of honor of such things, little pragmatical prig that you are; nor are you, that I know of.

In reality, this detection recommended these two prigs to each other, for a wise manthat is to say, a rogueconsiders a trick in life as a gamester doth a trick at play.

he replied, "you inquisitive prig, Gad's curse, pompous sir, do you think I've a wig?"

" "Well, I call that rot," cried Jack Vance: "the team doesn't belong to Allingford or to anybody else" "Oh, shut your mouth, you young prig!"

'It was a caddish thing to do,' said Georgie; 'and this Hartfield is just what I always thought himan insufferable prig.