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Besides, you know, I ought to have some little experience in such matters by this time; for, every boy and girl in the parish has made me their confidante for years and years past!" and she laughed again. Miss Pimpernell was once more her cheery old self, quite restored to her normal condition of good humour.
Madame de Campvallon was the confidante of all his projects, and added her own care to them; and both occupied themselves in organizing in advance their mutual existence, hereafter blended forever. The personal fortune of M. de Camors, united to that of the Marquise, left no limits to the fancies which their imagination could devise.
Eleanor blamed Sam for all the discomfort to which she had been subjected on account of Bartram's religious aspirations, and she was inclined to visit upon the new seamstress the blame for all the annoyances from which she had suffered. Like a great many other girls who are quite affectionate daughters, she neglected to make a confidante of her mother; and Mrs.
While Madame de Sablé was thus playing the literary confidante to La Rochefoucauld, and was the soul of a society whose chief interest was the belles-lettres, she was equally active in graver matters.
I need scarcely have told you of this so soon especially as you will hear of it soon enough from lips fitter to speak of it than mine, but one always feels the need of a confidante, however old he may be and young she may be." "And I shall be prouder of nothing than of being yours," she returned, stroking his grey hair lovingly.
Jenieve struck on Jean Bati' McClure's door, and faced his wife, speechless, pointing to the schooner ploughing southward. "Yes, she's gone," said Jean Bati' McClure's wife, "and the boys with her." The confidante came out on the step, and tried to lay her hand on Jenieve's shoulder, but the girl moved backward from her. "Now let me tell you, it is a good thing for you, Jenieve Lalotte.
She hoped Rhoda would soon learn to love her. She thought of her quite naturally as Rhoda now, and was tremulously eager to see her again. She was sure that the girl Tom loved must be worthy of his love. And the fact that he had made her his confidante had taken all bitterness out of her heart. She was proud that he had trusted her.
Outwardly it meant that the secret was mine, not hers; that she had nothing to do with it; but then there was another secret the fact that she was my sole confidante in a matter of this nature and this secret was ours in common On one occasion, in the course of one of these confabs of ours, she said, with ill-concealed malice: "Do you really think she cared for you?
Picture a sovereign worn out with state affairs, intrigues, and ceremonies, possessed of a confidante always the same, always calm, always rational, equally able to instruct and to soothe, with the intelligence of a confessor and the winning gentleness of a woman."
Juno had been a young man, instead of a very charming woman, she would of course have been Paul's chum. If Paul had been a young woman some of his friends thought he had narrowly escaped it and did not hesitate to say so he would instinctively have become her confidante.
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