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Dick sat down and knitted his brows as he studied his companion. Don Sebastian was a Peninsular Spaniard and in consequence of a finer type than the majority of the inhabitants of Santa Brigida. Dick, who thought he could confide in him, needed help, but the matter was delicate.
Tell me about it. Indeed, I should be glad if you would confide to me freely your situation and hopes, and then I shall be better able to help you." "I am almost ashamed to tell you how I was taken in," said our hero. "I suppose I ought to have been more prudent." He recounted the manner in which Greenleaf had robbed him. Mr.
From this vast unhappy prison-house did I hold communion with Him, whose eyes alone beheld me; to Him I recommended my father, my mother, and, individually, all those most dear to me, and it appeared as if I heard Him reply, "Confide in my goodness," and I exclaimed, "Thy goodness assures me."
Such is not the work that wise masters confide to fierce slaves. But that is the least of the reasons which exclude them from my choice, and fix my choice of assistant on you. Do you forget what I told you of the danger which the Dervish declared no bribe I could offer could tempt him a second time to brave?" "I remember now; those words had passed away from my mind."
But there was no touch of envy or jealousy in the tone with which he said, "I see there is some one you would like well enough to marry, and that you make a great difference in the way you treat a daffodil and a bluebell. Who and what is the young man whom the bluebell represents? Come, confide."
All I could learn was that they had known my mother quite slightly and that they had been much surprised when I was brought to them with the request that they would adopt me." "Do you desire to tell me, señor, why you left England?" asked Donna Elvira. "Yes; I want to," said Derrick, after a moment or two's silence. "I feel as if I wanted to confide in someone.
Clara came home, a degree more civilized, and burning to confide to Louis that she had thought of his advice, had been the less miserable for it, and had much more on which to consult him.
And, as he still left the door open, it was she who, in her desire to confide her sorrow and her sin to him, begged that he would close it. "Oh! I pray you, Monsieur l'Abbe," said she, "do not judge me too harshly." He made a gesture as though to reply that he did not allow himself the right to pass judgment upon her.
The truth is, they would willingly proscribe the persons of the Jacobins, while they cling to their principles, and still hesitate whether they shall confide in a people whose resentment they have so much deserved, and have so much reason to dread.
"Then you ought to be!" retorted the Duchess, shaking an admonitory finger at him, yet smiling also as the carriage rolled away. "Youth can never prefer to listen to a chattering old woman in a wig!" "But you see, madam, I need your help, your advice," said Barnabas gravely. "Ah, now I love giving people advice! It's so pleasant and easy!" "I wish to confide in you, if I may."