"It was my rockets, Elithenia," he said with shy pride.

Seeing the young woman's shy pride, he felt sure no other eyes but his had ever seen this sanctuary.

She would announce the specialty of the day with shy pride at the start of each session: "Today is apple!"

"We make pretty good rebels, too," said the Secondary, with shy pride.

He added with shy pride, "But I put the hinges on myself."

"I've seen people touch him hoping to get some of it," Eleanor said, with shy pride.

She smiled with a kind of shy pride that was touching.

"That cost us nearly twenty dollars, you know," said Silverfish, with shy pride.

"I saw a guy dead with his head spilling out on the ground," he said, with shy pride.

Andrew, who has a wife and two young children, recently renovated two upstairs rooms, which he showed me with shy pride.