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"Pshaw! psutt!" said Ysolinde, making a little face, "be not so mock-modest. You do very well. But tell me if you have any sweetheart in the city to leave behind you." Now this bold question at once reddened my face and heightened my confusion. "Nay, lady," I stammered, conscious that I was blushing furiously, "I am over-young to have thought much of the things of love.
"Play us up something merry, sir," hazarded one of the mock-modest ones in the rear. "Shan't I be taking you from your work?" objected David dryly. "Oh, all work and no play is bad for the body," replied the minx, keeping ostentatiously out of sight.
To her an egotist was also a bluff. His bad taste repelled her. And yet he did not seem to stress the announcement. "A first-class man should not waste his time," she observed, but to save her life she could not keep her tone free from sarcasm. He took up her meaning with extraordinary quickness. "You think I might have let somebody else say that? Pshaw! I'm not mock-modest.
Then, you gentlemen of the State Committee, each in his county delegation, are to start a demonstration in my behalf. This is no time for me to be mock-modest. On the heels of that demonstration Everett's name is to be withdrawn with the explanation that such an apparently spontaneous demand from the voters should be recognized. Mr.
"I told her that you were well, that I got on with you, and we always like the same people." "That must be awkward sometimes?" "What do you mean? "Lucky for me that we do not." "Lucky for you?" "Why will you make me say things that sound mock-modest?" cry I, reddening a little this time.
There never was such a fluent, artful, mock-modest, dramatic puss in the world! "Hah! mistook you for an angel. Eh? Not much mistake when you like to be good, but when you begin picking my pocket, there's not much of the angel about that, I venture to say."
The grateful husband wrote to Bassett, and now acknowledged his obligation. A civil, mock-modest reply from Richard Bassett. From this things went on step by step, till at last Compton and Ruperta, at eighteen years of age, were formally betrothed. Thus the children's love wore out the father's hate.
Sara's answer came simply, minus the mock-modest tag: "A little," or "I'll do my best," which most people seem to think it incumbent on them to add, in the circumstances.
And in another I am clearly very proud and excited and a little mock-modest over the success of my first two speeches in the Union. On the whole I like the rather boyish, tremendously serious young man of those letters. An egotist, of course, but what youth was ever anything else? I may write that much freely now, for by this time he is almost as much outside my personality as you or my father.
The vital feature, however, lay in the revelation of Sister Claire's character, between the lines. Beneath the vulgarity and obscenity, poorly veiled in a mock-modest verbiage, pulsated a burning sensuality reaching the horror of mania. A well-set trap would have easy work in catching the feet of a woman related to the nymphs.
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