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She grew conscious of his presence, and looked him over with an air that was faintly, mockingly searching. "La!" said she. "It's the delicate-minded gentleman!" Peter groaned. "Am I so hopelessly beyond forgiveness? I ask it very humbly." "What condescension!" "It is cruel to mock me," said he, and adopted mock-humility. "After all, I am but a slave. And you might be ill one of these days."
I will never ask you to do anything for me in future." "Oh, now, that's all mock-humility. In spite of the tears in your eyes, you are as angry with me as ever; but don't go to make mischief between me and Moodie. If you'll say nothing about my refusing to go with you, I'll milk the cows for you myself to-night." "And can you milk?" said I, with some curiosity. "Milk!
I said no more I had nothing more to say: I saw that I had given pain, and I have never touched upon the subject since. But her practice is even beyond her theory. No prudery no coquetry no mock-humility no triumph. Never for an instant did she, by a proud air, say to her husband, See what others think of me! Never did a resentful look say to him Inconstant! revenge is in my power!
With his characteristic trick of humorous mock-humility, Arnold wrote to a friendly reviewer who praised these lectures on translating Homer: "I am glad any influential person should call attention to the fact that there was some criticism in the three lectures; most people seem to have gathered nothing from them except that I abused F.W. Newman, and liked English hexameters."
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