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I'm sorry if my cough annoyed you, coming when it did, but I thought you seemed before to be engaged in conversation which I felt a certain diffidence in interrupting." "So you listened, I suppose?" "Yes, I listened. I did not hear as much as I could have wished, but it was your best manner, Danvers. You certainly have a gift, though you dropped your voice unnecessarily once or twice, I thought.
Although the perfect curve of the cheek-line had given place to a perceptible depression beneath the cheek-bone; although the usual marks of a boy's adolescence the slight pallor, the quick blush of diffidence, the slimness of limb were all very noticeable in Doe, there was yet much of the original Baby about his appearance.
The enterprise was a splendid one; and if God Aragon pronounced the name without a particle of diffidence deigned to bless it, the day was coming when the fortune of his uncle, solidly established, would make him the pride and the joy of the region. It may as well be mentioned here that the subsequent career of the chest-nut-colored interpreter is not entirely unknown. In 1860, Mr.
Yes, I had relied on him in my heart, for all my outward diffidence and humility; and I was rightly served. There was as little of mercy as of sympathy in that curling nostril, that rigid jaw, that cold blue eye which never glanced my way. I caught up my hat. I blundered to my feet. I would have gone without a word; but Raffles stood between me and the door. "Where are you going?" said he.
Our works serve their purpose, but one can't call them pretty." She was pleased with his answer. "I think that gets the strongest hold on me," he went on, glancing toward the picture of the moor; "it's real!" There was a hint of diffidence in Millicent's expression. "But you can hardly judge, can you? You have scarcely seen the English moors."
"While it gives me great pleasure to talk to the great number of students studying the piano, I can assure you that it is with no little diffidence that I venture to approach these very subjects about which they are probably most anxious to learn.
But we had scarcely settled ourselves to talk when the butler opened the door, and announced "Mr. Bertram Frayling," and a tall, slender, remarkably handsome young fellow, with a strong family likeness to Evadne herself, entered with boyish diffidence, smiling nervously, but looking important, too. Evadne jumped up impetuously. "Bertram!" she exclaimed, holding out her arms to him.
Of bashfulness, diffidence or fear we had none, our main object being to bask in the heat of our own fervour. Bravery may sometimes have its drawbacks; but it has always maintained a deep hold on the reverence of mankind. In the literature of all countries we find an unflagging endeavour to keep alive this reverence.
They had but fifteen minutes in which to make up their minds. The mate stood by, his face and manner serious and thoughtful. "Mr. Holdfast," said Mr. Stubbs, "do you agree with the captain that it is our best course to take to the boats?" "I should prefer to try the ship a little longer. I say so with diffidence, since the captain has a longer experience than I."
They may even be inwardly dissatisfied with themselves, yet they care not to express it openly, lest they may be thought little of; a timidity natural in youth, and arising, not unfrequently, from diffidence in its own powers.