But in truth, shyness is based on a set of ideas about the world that are eminently amiable to change through a process of reason, because they are founded on some touchingly malleable errors of thought.
Aunt Polly knelt down and prayed for Tom so touchingly, so appealingly, and with such measureless love in her words and her old trembling voice, that he was weltering in tears again, long before she was through.