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Nothing further worth mentioning occurred to the hunters that day, save that little Tolly Trevor was amazed we might almost say petrified by the splendour and precision of the trapper's shooting, besides which he was deeply impressed with the undercurrent of what we may style grave fun, coupled with calm enthusiasm, which characterised the man, and the utter absence of self-assertion or boastfulness.
For instance, he once fined a woman for lampooning him, but caused the money to be given to her children. Though often unfair in argument, he was by nature neither mean nor petty. In ordinary circumstances he remembered noblesse oblige, and though boastfulness may have been among his failings, he had a love of greatness which preserved him from sordid misdemeanours.
The classical tutor, Mr Dalton, wrote back that Kennedy's failure was due solely to idleness; that his abilities were acknowledged to be brilliant, but that at Camford as everywhere else, the notion of success without industry, was a chimera invented by boastfulness and conceit. "Le Genie c'est la Patience."
All feelings of this kind are a sort of melting pleasure that dissolves the mind. Boastfulness is a pleasure that consists in making an appearance, and setting off yourself with insolence. The subordinate species of lust they define in this manner: Anger is a lust of punishing any one who, as we imagine, has injured us without cause. Enmity is anger waiting for an opportunity of revenge.
Along with the new emotions that were choking him came an unaccustomed impulse of boastfulness. "I can read that," he said when she ignored his offer to save her. "Of course it's code, but I can spell it out." He made a move to step forward and watch the signaler, but she put her hand on his arm. "Don't go. I'm nervous, Cecil," she said. She had called him by his first name.
There was much of the child in the young man's whole appearance, but of a mischievous and beautiful child, of whom his mother might observe, with adoration and illconcealed boastfulness, "I can never tell what that child will do next!"
Hearing then these words uttered by all the combatants, thy son Duryodhana, that offender against all, addressed Bhishma and Drona and Kripa and Salya, O Bharata, saying, 'Fight ye without boastfulness. Why tarry ye at all? Then the battle was resumed between the Kurus and the Pandavas, that fierce battle, O king, caused by the match at dice and marked by an awful slaughter.
"I guess you'd have some trouble finding a square foot of it that I ain't been over," he added, mildly boastful. If one might judge anything from a face as blank as that of a china doll, both the pride and the boastfulness were quite lost upon the stranger. Only his eyes were wistfully melancholy. "My name is Alexander P. Dill," he informed Billy quite unnecessarily.
Many of the like examples are to be seen in the poet, as a writer of majestic, but not inhuman, tragedy. Rose laughter irrepressible, at sight Of Vulcan hobbling round the spacious hall. Thersites is most contemptible in body and most evil in disposition, from his raising a disturbance, and his slanderous speech and boastfulness. The Greeks, despite their anger, laugh'd aloud.
In their ramblings together, through the orchards where the ripening apples turned up their bonny faces, peering through the leaves to find the sun; up the side of the hills, exploring the hidden dangers of the hollow chalk-pits climbing always to see what the world looked like on the other side they came to know each other; Sally to know all his little faults, sometimes of pride, sometimes of lovable boastfulness; he to know that her heart was aching aching for something something that he could not comprehend.
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