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Updated: May 3, 2025
'London is an excellent place for showing one of how little importance one is in the world. One makes a certain figure, and perhaps is tempted to think oneself of some consequence. Then one goes away, and on returning is surprised to discover that nobody has ever noticed one's absence. Lucy smiled faintly. Dick, recovering his good-humour, came at once to the rescue. 'You're overmodest, Alec.
An overmodest beginner will make the mistake of playing only against her likewise beginning friends; the result is that she takes a discouragingly long time finding out how to use her racket properly and never gets a chance to return a really good serve. It is really just as well at some point in your practising to see some well-trained athlete do the thing you are trying to learn.
This little nickel will take you to a mountaintop overlooking city and ocean, where you can sit under the Eucalyptus trees which shed their bark instead of their leaves, and enjoy the music and the not overmodest dramas, without extra charge.
She took her little triumph very modestly, saying that she was rather surprised at herself, and supposed that it was the fresh and delicious air of the country which had put her into such good form. "She is ridiculously overmodest," said Isabel Tristram to Merry, "for she always did play every sort of game better than the rest of us.
But he doesn't owe us anything. Someone else would have dragged him out if we hadn't." "If you hadn't," Rick corrected. "I didn't move fast enough." "Neither did anyone else," Hank pointed out. "Don't be overmodest about it, Scotty. Go and see him." The infirmary, operated by Lomac, was only a block away. Rick and Scotty walked over and checked in at the reception desk.
Her reason for doing so was not so clear to the young man, but he appreciated her interest. Was he overmodest? Perhaps. He might have gained courage regarding the girl's attitude toward him had he known that, on the nights he was at home, she sat in her darkened, upper room and watched the lamp he burned until it was extinguished.
But by and by I felt a great pull on my line and, sure enow, it was he, the big fellow!" "That was rare luck, Mac," I said, wondering a little. Had Mac been overmodest, before, when he had said he was no great angler? Or was he ? Aweel, no matter. I'll let him tell his tale. "Man, Harry," he went on, "can ye no see the ithers? They were excited. All offered me advice.
Just here I rise to remark: For effective purposes one must not be unduly sensitive or overmodest in writing autobiography for, being the events and memoirs of his life, written by himself, the ever-present pronoun "I" dances in such lively attendance and in such profusion on the pages that whatever pride he may have in the events they chronicle is somewhat abashed at its repetition.
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