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Even were she seen, appearing to be quietly at anchor, with no one on her decks, she might, we hoped, fail to excite suspicion. As the boat advanced, we slipped round on the opposite side of the schooner to conceal ourselves from her sight. Her crew bent manfully to their oars. In a short time longer we hoped she would be in our power.

Aaron then said to Moses: "How long, O my brother, wilt thou still conceal the commission God hath entrusted to thee? Thou knowest that He Himself, when for the first time He addressed thee, with His own lips declared of me, 'When he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. Why, then, dost thou conceal the commission God hath entrusted to thee?

"She will never be my wife!" "Does she no longer love you?" Philip's head drooped. There was a long silence; suddenly he glanced up. "Why should I conceal it from you longer, Dolores? I love you; I love you as I loved you in years gone by when I first dared to open my heart to you; and since that time, in spite of the barriers between us, I have never ceased to love you.

Aunt Marg is set upon my marrying her, and it's human nature, you know, never to want to do anything under compulsion, but to be inclined to do just what you know you must not. Eh, Palmer?" What could the fellow mean? Ray asked himself. Did he still suspect, in spite of his efforts to conceal the fact, who Ruth Richards really was?

We have many friends along the heights, here, who will consent to conceal thee; and I have come to carry thee and the American to the shore, until an opportunity offer to get thee to thine own France." "What! desert ces braves, Ghita, at a moment like this! Not to possess thy hand, dearest girl, could I be guilty of an act so base." "Thy situation is not theirs.

'Come, come, you exaggerate, my dear Miss ? Excuse me if I am too familiar: I have not yet heard your name. 'My name is Dorothy Greensleeves, sir: why should I conceal it? I fear it will only serve to point an adage to future generations, and I had meant so differently! There was no young female in the county more emulous to be thought well of than I. And what a fall was there!

It was so obviously a procession intended to impress, that neither Peter nor Sogrange thought it worth while to conceal their interest. The Duchesse, save that she was tall and wrapped in magnificent furs, presented a somewhat mysterious appearance.

But the fear of discovery came upon him; and he determined to go into the house and sup as usual, and late at night convey the treasure to the house. For the time, his trove gave him no joy; he could not have believed it would have so weighed on him he felt more like one who had some guilty secret to conceal, than a man to whom had befallen a great joy.

"Where?" said Mrs. Charmond; and on Suke pointing out the direction, she made as if to go thither. Grace barred the way. "He is not there," she said. "I have not seen him any more than you. I have heard a report only not so bad as you think. It must have been exaggerated to you." "Please do not conceal anything let me know all!" said Felice, doubtingly.

He had been about to give his sanction to the marriage, so certified had he been of this fact; and now he learnt that this imputed lover of Eleanor's was at any rage as much disliked by her as by any one of the family. Mr Harding, however, was by no means sufficiently a man of the world to conceal the blunder he had made.