Miriam was often sufficiently lofty to turn it.

Then they spat on her and hated her.

But she walked in her proud humility, living within herself.
There was always this feeling of jangle and discord in the Leivers family.

Although the boys resented so bitterly this eternal appeal to their deeper feelings of resignation and proud humility, yet it had its effect on them.

They could not establish between themselves and an outsider just the ordinary human feeling and unexaggerated friendship; they were always restless for the something deeper.