"Sometimes she seems to treat me with cold indifferenceis that merely the instinctive assertion of feminine coyness, or does she prefer another man?"

The custom of wife capture can be easily explained without calling in the aid of what we have seen to be so questionable a thing as primitive female coyness.

The custom of wife capture can be easily explained without calling in the aid of what we have seen to be so questionable a thing as primitive female coyness.

Inasmuch as she must resist whether she likes the man or not, how could such sham "coyness" be a symptom of love?

But seeing how strangely you are placed, and that you were about to start across the sea, to be absent perhaps for many years, I felt that it would not be worthy either of me or you were I to affect a maiden coyness and so to throw difficulties in your way.

Mrs. Silk hesitated and displayed a maidenly coyness far in excess of the needs of the situation.

Masculine coyness under such conditions has its risks.

How is my mother?" It might have been native coyness, or even coquetry, that unconsciously to herself influenced Maud's answer.

The germs of Greek venal coyness for filthy lucre may be found as low down as among the Papuan women who, as Bastian notes (Ploss, I., 460) exact payment in shell-money for their caresses.

But lord Capulet was deaf to all her excuses, and in a peremptory manner ordered her to get ready, for by the following Thursday she should be married to Paris: and having found her a husband rich, young, and noble, such as the proudest maid in Verona might joyfully accept, he could not bear that out of an affected coyness, as he construed her denial, she should oppose obstacles to her own good fortune.

Then, recovering her self-possession in a small measure, she stepped forward again, and said, in the blandest of tones, with just the least virgin coyness: "I thought perhaps I had left my scissors here this afternoon.

And, with a smile of antiquated coyness, she left the room.

Crude coyness and rude jealousy no doubt were known also to the rustic folk he sings about; but when he makes that ugly, clumsy, one-eyed monster, the Cyclops Polyphemus, fall in love with the sea-nymph Galatea (Idyl XI.) and lament that he was not born with fins that he might dive and kiss her hand if his lips she refused, he applies Alexandrian pseudo-gallantry to pastoral conditions where they are ludicrously out of place.

Even in her native state she is a most attractive young person, of an engaging coyness.

The following story, which I condense from the versified form in which Turner gives it, would seem to be a sort of masculine warning to women against the danger and folly of excessive coyness, so inconvenient to the men: Once there were two sisters, Sinaleuuna and Sinaeteva, who wished they had a brother.

She showed but little coyness and stated her price to be an Andulli or necklace, a couple of Tobesshe asked one too manya few handfuls of beads, and a small present for her papa.