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"But I don't feel that I have helped my friend in your good graces at all," protested Strahan, ruefully. "Has he commissioned you to help him?" she asked, quickly. "No, no, indeed. You don't know Merwyn, or you never would have asked that question." "Well, I prefer as friends those whom I do know, who are not inshrouded in mystery or incased in reticence.
She had trusted him entirely, and had thrown herself into his arms with full reliance. There is often much of reticence on the part of a woman towards a man to whom she is engaged, something also of shamefacedness occasionally.
True, there is a reticence in profound feeling, and sometimes the deepest love can only 'love and be silent, and there is a just suspicion of loud or vehement protestations of Christian emotion, as of any emotion.
Her mother, a widow of substantial means, had recently established herself there, in the proximity of friends, and the mathematical brother made his home with them. That Buckland took every opportunity of enjoying Sylvia's conversation was no secret; whether the predilection was mutual, none of his relatives could say, for in a matter such as this Buckland was by nature disposed to reticence.
His reticence could scarcely have been due to ignorance of his own designs; for his brother Caius left it on record that it was while journeying northward from Rome on his way to Numantia that Tiberius's eyes were first fully opened to the magnitude of the malady that cried aloud for cure.
He gave a little gasp, and fell back upon that strange reserve of apathy and reticence in which children are apt to hide their emotions from us at such a moment. He watched impassively the two other men who followed his brother out to give him a small bag and some instructions, and then returned within their cave, while his brother walked quickly away.
I was wondering, perplexedly, how I, I of all people, should have been picked up and enmeshed in the web of these Hyndses and their fate. "Thank you," said he, gratefully, "for your silence. Most women would have talked, for the good of my soul. Why don't you talk?" "Because I have nothing to say." "You evidently inherited a God-sent reticence from your British forebears.
Her words, too, in their very boldness were more exciting than the most refined commonplaces of other women. It was this union of more than ordinary womanly reticence with almost savage passion and directness that had always been Leam's charm to Edgar; nevertheless, he hesitated for a few minutes, thinking whether he should correct her manner of speech or not, and while loving chasten her.
Would that like reticence had checked the ill-timed eloquence of preachers and teachers of later days! I. We have the ghastly details of the crucifixion. Conder's suggestion of the site of Calvary as a little knoll outside the city, seems possible.
His workmanship everywhere is of the most elusive character, and he is a master of the art of reticence." Miss Cary further speaks of his "gentle gusto of line in motion, which lately has captivated us in the paintings of the Spaniard Sorolla, and long ago gave Botticelli and Carlo Crivelli the particular distinction they had in common."
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