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No doubt he thought her in love with Abergenny, whose habit of turning female heads was well known to him, and upon whom she had certainly beamed good will. No doubt he had expected her to manage to pass him, knowing his diffidence, and offer her congratulations; whereas she had taken no notice of him whatever.
We then recognised that we were mutually afraid of each other, and therefore came together with a certain amount of diffidence on both sides. However, we got into conversation, in French, and I very soon found that, although representatives of different nationalities, we were both at the same game of making a plan of the fort.
Uncle Chris spread his shapely legs before the fire, and glanced down kindly at Nelly. "Indeed?" He took a cup of tea and stirred it. "I was in America as a young man." "Whereabouts?" asked Nelly eagerly. "Oh, here and there and everywhere. I travelled considerably." "That's how it is with me," said Nelly, overcoming her diffidence as she warmed to the favorite topic.
The cut of his coat, the glossiness of his hat and boots, too, were all strikingly reminiscent of the dead man. His visitor was becoming nervous under Wrayson's close scrutiny. His manner betrayed a curious mixture of diffidence and assurance. He seemed overanxious to create a favourable impression. "I took the liberty of coming to see you, Mr. Wrayson" he said, twisting his hat round in his hand.
'Nothing can be more lovely than the colour of the sea, and the wonderful foliage, and the clearness. He says all lovers of fine scenery ought to come there. 'Scenery can hardly charm unless it has a past, he replied. 'I can controvert that, said Theodora. With much diffidence he replied: 'I speak only of my own feeling. To me, a fine landscape without associations has no soul.
She had an aversion to business and great diffidence of her own capacity, and though the emperor took her to the council of state at the time of the Polish election, when she was only sixteen, he yet failed to give her any real knowledge of the commonest forms of business.
Heath, speaking with a little diffidence and lack of assurance, had twice the wit, twice the eye for things, twice the illumination of Bertram Chester; yet it was the latter who brought laughter and attention. His personality, which surrounded him like an aroma, his smile, his trick of the eyes one listened to Bertram Chester.
He was the Malcolm of her first acquaintance, only without his foolish diffidence, and with a weight and earnestness that made him a man and not a boy; and she cordially invited him to bring his sister with him, and rest, on the way southward.
I can now exercise this employment only upon hearsay, or, at most, written evidence; and therefore shall exercise it with great lenity and some diffidence; but when we meet, and that I can form my judgment upon ocular and auricular evidence, I shall no more let the least impropriety, indecorum, or irregularity pass uncensured, than my predecessor Cato did.
Pity, then, that he had been denied expression, that he was doomed to the burden of utter timidity and diffidence, that Fate had set him tongue-tied and scarlet before the muslin-clad angels whom he adored and vainly longed to rescue, clasp, comfort, and subdue. The clock's hands were pointing close upon the hour of ten while Tansey was playing billiards with a number of his friends.
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