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He modestly called himself a rhetorician, but he possessed also the qualities of an acute thinker. He displayed unusual sagacity in detecting the value of different arguments in persuasion. He could arrange in proper proportion the most complex tangle of facts, so as to make one clear impression. Such power made him one of the great Victorian masters of argumentative prose. Life.
Modestly, as one asking rather than conferring a favour, he invited Julius to remain at Brockhurst, on a fair stipend, as domestic chaplain and librarian. "In the fulness of your generosity towards me you are creating a costly sinecure," Julius had remonstrated. "Not in the least.
There were numerous examples of self-denying patriotism which stayed in the ranks after expending much labor and money in recruiting, modestly refusing the honors, and giving way to some one supposed to have military knowledge or experience. The war in Mexico in 1847 was the latest conflict with a civilized people, and to have served in it was a sure passport to confidence.
Still kneeling before her, still bending his head modestly, and still blushing, Fairyfoot told his story. He told her of his own sadness and loneliness, and of why he was considered so terrible a disgrace to his family. He told her about the fountain of the nightingales and what he had heard there and how he had journeyed through the forests, and beyond it into her own country, to find her.
Drawing near to the spot, he saw that a small piece of white silk had been pressed in an almost imperceptible crack. "Bobichel, your knife," cried Fanfaro, breathlessly. "Master," said Bobichel, modestly, "there is a secret door there, and they generally have a spring attached to them." "You are right," replied Fanfaro, "but how discover the spring?"
She touched lightly upon Spain, upon the ascendency the Queen was acquiring already over the King, giving me to understand that it could not be otherwise; running lightly and modestly over the Queen, and always praising the goodness of the King of Spain. Fear, on account of the passers-by, put an end to our conversation.
"It has been the subject of a hundred discussions at court and at the exchanges, and there is nought but praise for the man who was the first to fight the cholera here in Russia with the weapons science has furnished mankind." Mendel blushed and said, modestly: "That man is a Jew, your excellency. It is not usual for one of our race to be the recipient of compliments at the hands of the gentiles."
"Ah! you've helped him already, sir, more than once, I believe; at least so he told me," said the barber, with an approving nod. "Well, so I have," returned Gorman modestly, "but he may be assured that any trifle he owes me won't be called for just now.
Annie's productions were so modestly conclusive as to apparently afford no standing ground for argument. In her heart, Margaret regarded them as she regarded Annie's personality, with a contempt so indifferent that it was hardly contempt. She proceeded exactly as if Annie had not made such a fervent disclaimer.
Few noticed the fair young creature at her side, her golden hair parted simply over her pure brow, and her mild blue eyes cast modestly upon the page of the hymn-book before her. Having now introduced Mrs. Lucretia Franklin and her two daughters to the reader, we shall proceed at once to bring them forward as active participants in the events of our history.
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