SHOWMANSHIP • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Showmanship

... Geraldine scorned him too much to be afraid of him, and while she doubted increasingly that it would be possible for her to remain here, she determined to see what the morning would bring forth. The man's passion for acquisition, evidenced by his showmanship of his accumulations, might again absorb him after the first flush of her novelty wore off. She would enter into the work of the house, she would never again sit tete-a-tete with him, and he should find it impossible to see her alone. His mother ...

— In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham