Timid
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'Go, go!' she said with a timid, guilty look at him.
Hopeless as his case was, obvious as it was that he could not recover, Levin and Kitty were for that hour both in the same state of excitement, happy yet
timid
and fearful of being mistaken.
'Alexis, don't be angry with me!Please understand that it is not my fault,' said Varya, looking at him with a
timid
smile.
But when at length she asked with a
timid
smile: 'Aren't you displeased about something connected with Veslovsky?' he gave vent to his feelings and told her everything.
'Help me!'Dolly looked with
timid
inquiry at his energetic face, which was now wholly and now partly in the sunlight that fell between the lime trees, and then was again darkened by their shadow.
On the contrary, when Kitty watched him in company – as one sometimes watches a person one loves, trying to see him from a stranger's point of view, so as to realize the impression he makes on others – she saw, even with some jealous fear, that far from needing pity he was very attractive, by his good breeding, his rather old-fashioned and
timid
politeness to women, his powerful figure, and, as she thought, his uncommonly expressive face.
He recalled the
timid
pathetic look with which Anna at parting from him had said: 'Anyhow, you will see him.
Where are his blue eyes and his sweet
timid
smile?' was her first thought on seeing her plump, rosy little girl with curly black hair, instead of Serezha, whom, in the disorder of her mind, she had expected to find in the nursery.
It was necessary to await the conclusion of the revolutionary catastrophes, and afterwards Napoleon's bloody fall; and it was Léon Grégoire who profited at a stupefying rate of progress by the
timid
and uneasy investment of his great-grandfather.
The other usually submitted with
timid
admiration and a credulity which always made him the dupe.
Ever since she was ten Mouquette had been lying about in all the corners of the ruins, not as a
timid
and still green little urchin like Lydie, but as a girl who was already big, and a mate for bearded lads.
Then, when he had served the young people, he planted himself at the door to watch them disappear in the twilight; and when his wife came to ask him a question in a
timid
voice, he fell on her, abusing her, and exclaiming that he would make them repent some day, the filthy creatures, who had no gratitude, when they ought all to be on the ground licking his feet.
And the chaffinches had begun, the chichouieux with the deeper note, thebatisecouics with their shriller note, all at first timid, and only risking a rare phrase, then, excited by each other's songs, increasing the pace; then at last carried away by such a rage of rivalry that they would even fall dead.
He had only one trouble, the consciousness of his lack of education, which made him embarrassed and
timid
as soon as he was in the presence of a gentleman in a frock-coat.
The women listened with
timid
humility, apologizing, and watching his eyes to see if he would relent.
There was a
timid
scratch at the door, and Hippolyte allowed himself to whisper through the keyhole:"The postman, sir.
The lodger, hiding his
timid
gentleness in his great beard, protested and stammered:"Oh, that?
Striking an average of observations taken at different times-- rejecting those
timid
estimates that gave the object a length of 200 feet, and ignoring those exaggerated views that saw it as a mile wide and three long--you could still assert that this phenomenal creature greatly exceeded the dimensions of anything then known to ichthyologists, if it existed at all.
"Yes; here she is.""Then let her come up!"Then there came forward on the platform a little old woman with
timid
bearing, who seemed to shrink within her poor clothes.
Let me go!""If it must be," he went on, his face changing; and he again became respectful, caressing,
timid.
No doubt Emma did not herself know, quite absorbed as she was by the charm of the seduction, and the necessity of defending herself from it; and contemplating the young man with a moved look, she gently repulsed the
timid
caresses that his trembling hands attempted.
The almost feminine cast of his features and his air of embarrassment did not seem in the least absurd to a woman who was extremely
timid
herself.
The young tutor and his
timid
mistress would have found in three or four novels, and even in the lyrics of the Gymnase, a clear statement of their situation.
She began by telling her what she was thinking in a
timid
voice; when the ladies were by themselves for any length of time, Madame de Renal would become animated, and a long, undisturbed morning passed in a flash and left the friends quite merry.
He was a man of six and thirty,
timid
in every way, and equally afraid of falls and of being laughed at.
But she was no longer the simple,
timid
woman of the previous year; her fatal passion, her spells of remorse had enlightened her.
As for Julien, he arrived spell-bound with admiration, and almost
timid
with excess of emotion in the first of the saloons in which the company were dancing.
He believed firmly that everything was at an end for ever between them, and yet, the following day, at luncheon, he was awkward and
timid
in her presence.
Be
timid
if you like, but do not be stupid.
It would have required a simple, artless, almost
timid
affection to appeal to him, whereas on the contrary, Mathilde's proud spirit must always entertain the idea of a public, of what _people would say_.
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