shamefacedness

"I say, Jack, stow that!" he said gently, and with a little shamefacedness.

She seemed alarmed by my violence, retreating a step or two, and looking at me haughtily, yet with a kind of shamefacedness.

And with many apologies and some shamefacedness he explained the situation.

The sense is, who, being pictured red, shows the blushing shamefacedness of being outdone in his own seraphic nature by an earthly saint.

Mart� coughed before replying, pulled a bit at his shirt cuffs, and declared, with a gesture between peevishness and shamefacedness: "Nothing—a factory of artificial stones."