An Undergraduate's Aunt by Thomas Anstey Guthrie

Francis Flushington belonged to a small college, and by becoming a member conferred upon it one of the few distinctions it could boast -- the possession of the very bashfulest man in the whole university.

But his college did not treat him with any excess of adulation on that account, and, probably from a prudent fear of rubbing the bloom off his modesty, allowed him to blush unseen -- which was indeed the condition in which he preferred to blush.