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"His friend and therefore his confidante," Sweetwater continued. "He has talked to you about Miss Challoner?" "He had to. There was nobody else to whom he could talk; and then, I had seen her and could understand." "Where did you see her?" "In New York. I was there once with father, who took me to see her. I think she had asked Mr.
Major Pendennis became the Begum's confidante and house-friend, and as a mother, a wife, and a capitalist, she consulted him. The poor lady, with tears of shame more than of grief in her eyes, told her version of her story. Going back a child to India after two years at a European school, she had met Amory, and foolishly married him.
Pray do not communicate the contents for a day or so, or a month." His imitation of the margravine was the pleasantest thing I heard from him. The princess's maid and confidante, he regretted to state, was incorruptible, which I knew.
Lady Menai inquired of Captain Baskelett whether he knew the nature of his uncle's business in Bevisham, the town he despised. What could Cecil say but no? His uncle had not imparted it to him. She was flattered in being the sole confidante, and said no more.
It seemed such a slow way of coming one's self." Mary Rogers's black eyes intimated that the way he had taken was the right one, but she gallantly recovered herself and remembered her position as confidante. And here was the opportunity of delivering Susy's warning unobserved.
Exactly what he said was entirely between themselves, but Everard burst out into eulogies regarding the Major to Lilias, who was still his chief confidante. "One of the best chaps I've ever met! A real good sort! I shan't forget what he said to me. I can tell you I've come to look at things in a different light lately. I'll do anything he suggests.
"Through Madame de Chevreuse, the intimate friend and confidante of the queen." "And Madame de Chevreuse " "Is dead." "Did any others know it?" "A man and a woman only, and they of the lower classes." "Who are they?" "Persons who had brought him up." "What has become of them?" "Dead also. This secret burns like vitriol." "But you survive?" "No one is aware that I know it."
"I can hardly credit her requesting, or your granting, such a thing," said she, "unless you have some motives of your own." I saw the force of her argument, and not wishing to make a confidante of her I held my tongue, and went out to work off my bile. I came in tired, after taking a stiff walk. I took supper with Madame Dubois, and we sat at table till midnight.
Your father made me his confidante all through; such a state as he was in you never saw, wondering whether she'd have him, never able to screw up his courage to ask her, now all down in the dumps and the next day halfway up to the moon. Well, of course they were married at last, and then I somehow lost sight of them.
She entered into his feelings far better than Jacqueline, who had been his first confidante Jacqueline, to whom he had confided his purposes, his ambition, and his day-dreams. He thought Jacqueline was selfish. She seemed to care only for herself. And yet, selfish or not selfish, she pleased him better than all the other girls he knew a thousand times more than gentle, sweet Giselle.
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