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He remembered that even Socrates, for all the popular charm of his mock-modesty and his true geniality, had ceased after a while to be tolerable. Without such a manner to grace his method, Socrates would have had a very brief time indeed. The Duke recoiled from what he took to be another pitfall. He almost smelt hemlock. A party of four undergraduates abreast was approaching.
"The plan is clever enough," replied Robin, who was free from all mock-modesty, "But you heard what that old Van Dunck said. I wish he had not said it." "Ten tousan' tuyfels as the stingy old thief himself says he might have held his infernal croak. I hate to make sail with a croak astern; 'tis as bad as a crow on forestay-sail."
Two sentences of his conversation were quite sufficient to stamp his individuality. "The first thing which struck me was the utter absence of all the mock-modesty, and the pretended self-underrating, conventionally assumed by persons expecting to be complimented upon their sayings or doings. Jasmin seemed thoroughly to despise all such flimsy hypocrisy.
Hamilton, by whom I send this and the little parcel for my wife, was, as it were, setting off for England; and I seized the opportunity of sending them by him, as without any mock-modesty I really thought that the expense of the postage to me and to you would be more than their worth. Day after day, and week after week, was Hamilton going, and still delayed.
"Is it me you are asking such a question?" cried Patty, and turned her head away with absurd mock-modesty. "And so 'tis," said Dence; "ah, that is a different thing." Henry thought that was no reason for Patty's staying at home; she ought rather to go and hear the bans were cried all right.
Ignorance is a poor pedestal to set virtue upon and mock-modesty should not have the right to prevent people from knowing themselves. Every child has a right to be well-born, and ignorance has no right to people the world with scrofula and consumption.
"No matter what you thought, you have tortured him to save your mock-modesty and mine. You could have dressed that other wound, covered him, and let me hold the stump. You saw what relief it gave him yesterday. How could you how dare you torture him?" "Well, sister, I have been in hospitals with sisters a great deal, and they never help to dress wounds. I thought you would not get leave to come.
Harry laughed slightly, for he knew it had been asked by many how such men as Uppinall and Minusex could think of putting themselves in competition with Alaric Tudor. 'That is something like mock-modesty, is it not, Alaric? 'No, by heaven, it is not! I know well what those men are made of; and I know, or think I know, my own abilities.
There was no possibility of mistaking this for mock-modesty, and though Mabel thought such sensitiveness rather overstrained, she liked him for it notwithstanding. 'I think you need not fear that, she said; 'but you shall not be made uncomfortable any more. And you are writing another book? May I ask you about that, or is that another indiscretion?
Then, turning to Bagshaw, he added, "That a man like you shouldn't know Jack Richards, is surprising!" As this was evidently pointed at Mr. Claudius Bagshaw in his capacity of member of a learned body, Bagshaw pursed up his mouth into a mock-modesty smile, and slightly bowed.
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