Sentence:  ... there was in all their minds a mute questioning of deference and chivalry, of the Bank of England and the Indian Empire, of ringed fingers and lace, though to them all there was something in this of the essence of beauty, which called out the <WSD>manliness</WSD> in their girlish hearts, and made them, as they sat at table beneath their mother's eyes, honour her strange severity ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The quality of being manly; the set of qualities, traits and abilities considered appropriate to men (as opposed to women or children); similarity to a man.