" "I am sure of it," said Ken, and then, a little more diffidently: "Do you like me best?" "Why, yes, of course I do," said Patty, smiling, "that is, after papa and Aunt Alice and Marian and Uncle Charley and Frank and Mancy and Pansyand Mr. Hepworth.

"I hope they're not stale," said Bob diffidently.

"Princess Sofia," said he, diffidently, "if I may say something without meaning to seem disrespectful" Perplexed, she encouraged him with one word: "Please."

"Yes," she said, handing it diffidently.

"I came to see you, Teddy, on a very delikit business," said Mr. Kybird, taking a seat and gazing diffidently at his hat as he swung it between his hands; "though, as man to man, I'm on'y doing of my dooty.

" "Why didn't you expect me?" he asked diffidently.

"I don't know," he said diffidently.

She had indeed refused banknotes diffidently offered to her by him, telling him to keep them by him till need of them arose.

"Don't let me interrupt," begged the youth diffidently.

And life seems a big enough thing," he added, a little diffidently, "to try pretty hard to get one's self right with it.

"I have a mother and two sisters over the water," said he diffidently.

Asked diffidentlyas diffidently as he could, that ishow many men my house would hold.

"You dowant to marry Miss Moore then, Dicky?" he asked diffidently.

"I say, Syb, don't treat a fellow as though he was altogether a stranger," he said diffidently, leaning against the door-post.

"Mr. COURTNEY, Sir," he said, diffidently hiding his hands in his trousers' pockets, "I claim the indulgence the House always extends to young Members, in rising to address it for the first time.

And for this very reason, while it is neither pious nor thankful to explain away the words which convey it, while it is a duty to use them, not less a duty is it to use them humbly, diffidently, and teachably, with the thought of God before us, and of our own nothingness.

Being a series of bouquets diffidently distributed.

" "If the tariff was repealed," said Steve diffidently, "if we raised money for the National Government, just as we do for county government" "Hush-sh!" said Mitchell, shocked.

I think," he added somewhat diffidently, looking up straight into the luminous eyes above him, "if you will allow me to say so, I would follow you anywhere,

" "And ..." said Lambert diffidently questioning, and eying the gold and silver which lay in profusion on the table, "there is no money at stake ... of course? ...

Sir Roger is beginning to talk of going homehis home, that isbut rather diffidently and tentatively, as if not quite sure whether the proposal will meet with favor in my eyes.

"I think I had the pleasure of seeing you in church, last Sunday," Algy says, rather diffidently; not having yet quite recovered from the humiliation engendered by his unfortunate remark.

By my peevish tears, by my mean and sidelong reproaches, by my sulky looks, I have necessarily diminished, if not quite squandered the stock of hearty, wholesome, honest love that on that April day he so diffidently laid at my feet.

He does not speak as I come near; only he opens his arms joyfully, and yet a little diffidently, too, and I fly to then.

"Lady Tyrrell, won't you give me your good wishes?" he asked, half diffidently.