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"So we must; it is growing late," Lizzie replied. "Remember now, I trust you, Lizzie," said Leah. "Never fear; I shall never betray your confidence." Then the two girls left the window, walked hastily through the hall and corridor, down the spiral staircase, out into the street, and turned homeward.
He told the story, told it with flourishes and decorations that pleased Archie immensely. "It sounds pretty fishy," Briggs remarked, "but there may be something in it." "You never can tell," muttered Eliphalet. "It would have been natural for one of those old southerners who hadn't any confidence in Jeff Davis to plant his money in some lonely place like this."
After dinner this evening I'll tell you what I think you ought to do you are so very young!" and she smiled "such a young little thing! I shall have to look after you and play chaperone!" Innocent looked up with a sweet confidence in her eyes.
As I proceed you will be convinced, I think, that only a true confidence in you would enable me to speak with such frankness. I I know of no one else in whom I could confide, and and the time has come when I must have help the help of a friend. I should have explained to my father indeed intended to do so but now he is helpless to aid me. There is no one else I feel able to trust.
"Now, when the Judge tells me that men appointed conditionally to sit as members of a Court will have to catechized beforehand upon some subject, I say, 'You know, Judge; you have tried it. When he says a Court of this kind will lose the confidence of all men, will be prostituted and disgraced by such a proceeding, I say, 'You know best, Judge; you have been through the mill. But I cannot shake Judge Douglas' teeth loose from the Dred Scott decision.
That his force in that November week before Groll was numerically far superior to the enemy is certain, but he had lost confidence in his cavalry since their bad behaviour at Mulheim the previous year, and a very large proportion of his infantry was on the sick-list at the moment of Spinola's approach.
It was strangely familiar, after the past twenty-four hours, to hear himself called "Mr." and, despite the uniforms and the surroundings, he felt he might be in the presence of a vicar in England. Some of his old confidence began to return. He replied freely to the questions. Presently the other glanced at his watch.
Thus there was formed, between these two, one of those alliances which come about when there is on the one hand hopeful confidence, in a young disciple, and, on the other, affectionate paternal friendship on the part of a teacher.
"Surely, madame, your grief makes you forget what you say. Everybody knows that she is an acquaintance of my youth, and that, since that time, having confidence in my doctrines and my counsel, she wished to have me as spiritual monitor and guide. How can you institute a comparison between such a relationship and your own?"
"Some people have to say things that can never be really said, or else keep everything shut up." "Don't you think they may make a mistake, and that the things can be said " He hesitated; he did not want to press her unfairly into confidence; "to the right person?" he concluded rather lamely.
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