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"I can't think of a great many at the moment, sir," replied the son, with the modesty of his generation. "And I couldn't in '61," said his uncle. "Nevertheless they were there." "Then your theory is that it's the occasion that is wanting," said Bromfield Corey. "But why shouldn't civil service reform, and the resumption of specie payment, and a tariff for revenue only, inspire heroes?
She may, or may not, be called upon to furnish sex instruction to the girls under her care, but no rules can free her from her moral responsibility in striving to keep the sex atmosphere clean and invigorating. The "conspiracy of silence" on these subjects is broken, and we must accept the fact that modesty does not require an assumed or a real ignorance of the most wonderful of nature's laws.
An enlargement from a drawing by Walter Crane was shown as illustrating the principles of artistic and natural costume costume which permitted the waist to be the normal size, and allowed the drapery to fall in natural folds costume which knew nothing of pleats and flounces, stays and "improvers" costume which was very symbolization and embodiment of womanly grace and modesty.
In any event, I may safely say that if I possessed a fund of literary wealth it was only fair that he should have a large share of it, as but for him I should never have suspected its existence. II. It is very difficult to prove that one is modest, for the very assertion of one's modesty destroys one's claim to it.
And thou mightest already have been a belted knight if thy prudence and thy modesty had not been greater than thine ambition. Is it not so?" Raymond's face glowed like a child's beneath the praises of Mistress Joan Vavasour, and the light of her bright eyes seemed fairly to dazzle him.
"So you'll take them on Wastdale Head, then, eh?" said Liza, turning her head aside as though in the abundance of her maidenly modesty, but really glancing slyly under the corner of her bonnet in the direction taken by the mourners, and wondering if they could be overtaken. Joseph was a little disturbed to find that he had unintentionally disclosed so much of the design.
Modesty will not permit me to say all I might, in favour of my own skill in music in general; but I sang well for an amateur, and played, both on the violin and flute, far better than is common. Everything was arranged in the course of the following day, our wigs of themselves completely effecting all the disguises that were necessary.
"Yes, for God's sake spare his modesty!" supplemented the other painter almost brutally. "Look at his blushes. It isn't so bad as all that, Lightmark." "I don't even know the subject," pursued Rainham. "You might at least tell me what it was. Was it the canvas which you wouldn't show me, just before I went away at the studio? The one about which you made such a mystery ?"
Worried and perplexed as Paul had been, as Mascarin concluded he sank back in his chair, sick and giddy with emotion. "Yes," said Mascarin in a clear and ringing voice, "I accept your praise without any affectation of false modesty. We have no reason to fear the intervention of that grain of sand which sometimes stops the working of the machine.
But they knew well this was not the scene for doing more than, with eloquent modesty, hint them; that the Resolution, being already taken, would not alter for commonplace; and that the question now lying for honorable members was, How to execute it?