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'She was a good woman in the highest sense, gravely answered Barnet, who, though Downe's words drew genuine compassion from his heart, could not help feeling that a tender reticence would have been a finer tribute to Mrs. Downe's really sterling virtues than such a second-class lament as this.
With Adrian it was a reticence as to the things he had left undone; but with Eustace it seemed that the curtain which he was so careful to leave undrawn hid something more than a half-empty chamber. Two years before his death Adrian Borlsover developed, unknown to himself, the not uncommon power of automatic writing. Eustace made the discovery by accident.
With the reticence to which she had schooled herself she had made no comment, but the thought of that rolled up hidden canvas and its possible significance remained with her. It might mean only a renewed interest in the scenes of past exploits fervently she hoped it did. But it might also mean the projection of new activities.... The arrival of a footman bringing tea put a period to her thoughts.
With Scotch caution, Thomas, as soon as they entered the shop, instead of taking leave of Annie, went up to the counter, and asked for an "unce o' tobawco," as if his appearance along with Annie were merely accidental; while Annie, with perfect appreciation of the reticence, ran through the gap in the counter.
Her face, which had been pale from the strain of the tragedy, was now full of colour, and her breast rose and fell with suppressed emotion. "Afraid of him why?" asked Kennedy. There was no more reticence. Once having said so much, she seemed to feel that she must go on and tell her fears. "Because," she went on, "he he knows a woman whom my father knew."
Therein it failed to satisfy our minds, so that our attempts to imitate the blast of a hurricane led us easily into exaggeration, a tendency which still persists and may not prove easy of cure. And for this, the fact that in English literature the reticence of true art has not yet appeared, is responsible.
"If Lilia was determined to disgrace us, she might have found a less repulsive way. A boy of medium height with a pretty face, the son of a dentist at Monteriano. Have I put it correctly? May I surmise that he has not got one penny? May I also surmise that his social position is nil? Furthermore " "Stop! I'll tell you no more." "Really, Miss Abbott, it is a little late for reticence.
That was why I didn't come to see you in the city. Harold sat for some moments without speaking, looking into the fire. Reticence was natural to him; he refrained from questioning her, and thought instead of some harmless subject of conversation. Her painting? But she had abandoned painting. Her money? she had lost it! ... that was the trouble she was in.
For several days after our arrival on the creek, the men had been urging Uncle John to tell them another story of his early adventures; but the old trapper was in one of his silent moods he frequently had them and could not be persuaded to emerge from his shell of reticence despite their most earnest entreaties. I knew it would be of no use for me to press him.
Chickering was felt by all classes of his fellow-citizens especially by the poor. To them he had been a kind and generous friend. Distress never appealed to him in vain, and he proved a faithful steward of the riches committed to his care. Yet he performed his charities with such a modesty and reticence that few beside the grateful recipients were aware of them.
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