The Prince at once waited upon her, and after a few minutes' general conversation, the Queen told him why she had sent for him, and modestly but plainly said that she was quite willing now to undertake the bond of betrothal.
Mrs. Wentworth's eyes were modestly cast down, but a smile played round her mouth.
Everybody discovered that they had foretold it from the first, and modestly disclaimed any credit for anticipating a union between a couple so obviously made for one another.
I wanted to challenge the Baron to a duel," I replied asmodestly as possible; "but the General protested against my doing so.
Wherefore, as an opening into that business, I offer the following hints, at the same time modestly affirming that I have no other opinion of them myself than that they may be the means of giving rise to something better.
Where two such powerful factors combine, politics is never far in the rear, though modestly invisible to the naked eye.
This they modestly disclaimed and declared they were only too delighted to have been able to stop the team before any serious harm had been done.
His skill, his judgment, his nerve, were dwelt upon to the exclusion of everything else; but he modestly disclaimed any credit and put it all up to the car.
Her new position, modestly as she filled it, was yet a high position.
A man was to come and measure those covers this very afternoon--perhaps this was he, modestly waiting at the side door.
And, pushing the impatient Hildebad back, he modestly placed himself on the left of the judgment-seat amongst the others.
He accepted her implied tribute modestly and with unaffected gratification, again wiping his brow and his broad, good face.
A few days afterwards, a reverend wayfarer calls at the inn; baits his beast, and modestly refreshes himself.
In gubernatorial proclamations, the phrase modestly employed is--"Our Town of York.
I modestly admitted that it was not only my first visit to Rouen, but my first to the Continent.
I made my bow, was graciously received, and dropped modestly into the rear.
But I love them," modestlypersisted Semyon Vasilyevich.
A more or less expensive tombstone stood modestly at the head of the mound and silently announced to the passer-by what any tombstone is supposed to announce, namely that somebody sleeps beneath this mound.
Mount Olivet Church reared her white walls modestly from the brow of the blue-grass knoll a quarter of a mile eastward.
He told her modestly of his success, in so far as it was necessary that she should understand his position.
She seemed on the point of speaking, but checked herself, and her eyes, that had looked me through and through a moment before, drooped modestly under my glance.
God was going to have his people dress modestly in accordance with their profession.
God demands of his people that they dress modestly as becomes people who profess holiness.
Rather pleased with my production, I presented it the next day to the cardinal, modestly saying that I doubted whether he would accept the authorship of so ordinary a composition.
If she happened to raise her eyes and to meet mine, she modestly bent her head down, and sometimes she rose and went in slowly, as if she meant to say, "I did not know that somebody was looking at me.
Her dress was very simple, consisting of a long sarong of fine batek, passing under both arms and across the chest, so that, though her shoulders were quite naked, her bosom was modestly covered.
I did not understand what was said, but I guessed it referred to the girl because, when her father called her, she advanced submissively, and stood modestly before us.
I therefore made the examination as modestly as I could, and I found her to be intact.
Her cheeks blossomed like the rose, her teeth were white as pearls, and her breasts, though modestlyconcealed from view, were exquisitely rounded.
What she said was spoken modestlyand energetically, and her good humour and pleasant smile remained unmoved throughout.
After I had dropped Zinowieff at his lodging I went home, and for four days I was engaged in collecting and arranging my slave's toilet, not resting till I had dressed her modestly in the French style.
Yet they say, that when praised for one of his pictures, he would modestly observe, "It is a pretty color.
The females stood modestly aside, and, from having been the principal actors in the scene, they now became the meek and attentive observers of that which followed.
Long may "Jimmy" cook and wear blue shoes a modestly supplicate "For those in Peril on the Sea"!
Her cheeks flushed softly as she modestly returned my salute, and when she was once outside the church door she paused, her small white fingers still clasping the carven brown beads of her rosary.
