And all this has been built up so unassumingly that its magnitude is hardly realised by the Americans themselves.

He stayed four days; and all the while he was there, I never so much as thought of ceremonious dress and dinners, and liveried butlers and footmen; nor did it once occur to me that our simple kitchen Nora, and Old John's son at the wheel of our one motorcar, were not beautifully and entirely adequate, so unassumingly and so perfectly did Jerry unmistakably "fit in.

" "I'd like to help, too," said Roger unassumingly, "if you think I know enough.

The Pastor's maid, on the other hand, had unassumingly set hers aside.

It was a sweet and soothing sight to see how judiciously, how unassumingly Ellen devoted herself to the desolate mother, without once permitting that work of love to interfere with her still nearer, still dearer ties at home.

Those who go out into the world do so to work unassumingly as school teachers, factory hands, or household servants.