The wonted words of courtesy.
Go to her now—be bold of cheer,
While her soul floats 'twixt hope and fear:
It is the very change of tide,
When best the female heart is tried—
Pride, prejudice …
Are in the current swept to sea.
Rokeby, Canto 2.
She was highly accomplished; yet she had not learned to substitute the gloss of politeness for the reality of feeling.—Waverley.