What we'd be communicating: That we're pretty sensible, in many ways, with a keen eye for restraint and a decent amount of self-control.

我们在很多方面都很明智，有敏锐的自制和足够的自。

The king himself was crying. It was only a long time afterwards that Julien had sufficient self-possession to enquire " where were the bones of the Saint that had been sent from Rome to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy" ?

国王自己也在哭。直到很久后，于连才有足够的自制来询问“送到勃艮第公爵好人腓的圣人的遗骨在哪里”？

The idea was those people with more self-control would be less apt to react to the happy faces.

这个想法是那些有更多自制的人不太容易对快乐的面孔做出反应。