Come, this is but the coyness of a Bride.

His coyness to the other's passionfor hate demands a return as much as love, and starves without itis most arch and pleasant.

Now even primitive women are attached to their homes and relatives, and it is needless to say their resistance to the enemy who has just slain their father and brothers and is about to carry them off to slavery, is genuine, and has no more trace of coyness in it than the actions of an American girl who resists the efforts of unknown kidnappers to drag her from her home.

Women are prevented by custom, etiquette, and inbred coyness from showing gallant attentions to men before marriage, whereas the impulse to sacrifice happiness or life for love's sake is at least as strong in them as in men, and of longer standing.

It brutalizes the men and prevents the growth of feminine qualities, coyness among others.

Masculine coyness under such conditions has its risks.

Was coyness at all times an attribute of femininity, or is it an artificial product of modern social conditions and culture?

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.