To prove his courage, he told her of his present way of life; Louise had known nothing of its hardships, for there is an indefinable Pudency inseparable from strong feeling in youth, a delicacy which shrinks from a display of great qualities; and a young man loves to have the real quality of his nature discerned through the incognito.
"Two Poets Lost Illusions Part I"
Honore de Balzac
But her anxiety was vigilant to guard her girl from an infusion of any of the dread facts of life not coming through the mother's lips: and she was a woman having the feminine mind's Pudency in that direction, which does not consent to the revealing of much.
"One of Our Conquerors, v2"
George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English
It was, her revived and uprising Pudency declared, the principal; the only cause.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith