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If I were in the Cabinet myself I should not admit so much. There are reticences, of course. And there is an official discretion." "But you don't mean to say, Lady Glencora, that you would really advocate equality?" said Mrs. Bonteen. "I do mean to say so, Mrs. Bonteen.
She reminded her, too, how often they had acted on his advice and always with good effect; how many anxieties and worries they had saved their mother by reticence. Josephine assented warmly to this. Was there not some reason to think they had saved their mother's very life by these reticences? Josephine assented.
He had too much of his own to say. "What do you suppose I'm here for?" he asked, as if, whatever it might be, it was in itself accusatory. "Search me," said Nan, with the flippancy he hated. She knew, by instinct as by long acquaintance, that one charm for him lay in her old-fashioned reticences and chiefly her ordered speech.
But as the work went on, and the dust arose, and the prettinesses were destroyed, and money became scarce, and weariness was felt, and the heat showed itself, and the muslins sank into limpness, and the ribbons lost their freshness, and braids of hair grew rough and loose, and sidelocks displaced themselves as girls became used to soliciting and forgetful of their usual reticences in their anxiety for money, the charm of the thing went, and all was ugliness and rapacity.
And it suddenly struck me as odd, the timidities and reticences which nature imposes on our souls.
This time she did not draw away and they walked on, close-linked, alone in the moonlit street. Conscious of her reticences, ashamed of her lack of candor, and yet afraid to make damaging revelations, she said defensively: "I've told you as much as I want to tell." He seized on that, in his eagerness pressing her arm against his side, bending over her like a lover. "Yes, but not all.
The resurrection of the dead, as it is represented by the image-maker of Le Berry, is enough to set the noisy prudery of the Catholics neighing, for the figures are nude, and certain reticences, usually observed at any rate in the female form, are here omitted.
I heard exaggerated stories about Americans, and especially about the Americans of the Far West, heard them, that is, represented as semi-barbarians, coarse, rash, and boastful, with bad manners and no feeling for the reticences of life. Such legends exasperated me beyond words. I felt as did the author of Ionica on re-reading the play of Ajax.
True, it had its reticences, its sacred disguises, its noble powers of silence and self-control. It was a fair-written, open book; only, to read it clearly, you must come from its own country, and understand the same language. For the rest, John was decidedly like the "David" whose name I still gave him now and then "a goodly person;" tall, well-built, and strong.
How much that strange confession explained to him! The painter's absurd fits of jealousy, his wild devotion, his extravagant panegyrics, his curious reticences he understood them all now, and he felt sorry. There seemed to him to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance. He sighed and touched the bell. The portrait must be hidden away at all costs.
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