maidenliness

For there is a maidenliness in sorrow, that wraps her garments close around her.

Nothing came of his enquiries and the first ten days of October passed uneventfully with his praise of Helen's 'lovely portion of that maidenliness which you shall never lose'.

Beautiful with the truest sort of beauty, for nobility of character lent its subtle charm to the bloom of youth, the freshness of health, the innocence of a nature whose sweet maidenliness Mac felt but could not describe.

But at last, lest he should seek her, and finding her, should suspect her thoughts, she descended and sought him.-For there is a maidenliness in sorrow, that wraps her garments close around her.-But he was not to be seen; the door of the study was locked.