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They knew Florette would come quietly, but Tom believed he could detect her approach. After a while, they abandoned all their pretence of nonchalant confidence and did not talk at all. Of course, they knew Florette would come in her own good time, but the stifling atmosphere of that musty hole and the thought of what might happen
"And forgive me for speaking very plainly, child, I do not intend that you should," the old man said. "Because you cannot trust me!" she pouted. "You think that because I'm a woman I cannot keep a secret." "Not at all," he said. "I place every confidence in you, dear. You are the only real friend left to me in the whole world. I know that you would never willingly betray me to my enemies; but "
And every eye in England was soon turned on Drake and Hawkins for a stroke at Spanish power beyond the sea. Drake and Hawkins formed a most unhappy combination, made worse by the fact that Hawkins, now old beyond his years, soured by misfortune, and staled for the sea by long spells of office work, was put in as a check on Drake, in whom Elizabeth had lost her former confidence.
I can sell the hemp in the course of the day for forty crowns without difficulty." "In that case I will, for I have confidence in what you say."
It happened very luckily for us at this time that the imprudence of the Cardinal was greater than the inconstancy of the Duc d'Orleans, for a little before the Queen returned an answer to the remonstrances, he talked very roughly to the Duke in the Queen's presence, charging him with putting too much confidence in me.
"Which passage, with much more to the same purpose, you will find in the third book of his Tusculan Questions. "With how much greater confidence may a good Christian despise, and even deride, all temporary and short transitory evils!
The Sanitary Board are told that a building is to be put up, in which fifty rooms will be set aside for them, but they are not satisfied that the authorities should do good by stealth and blush to find it fame. I cannot understand how mere applications can shake confidence? Well, they do, because they are only made when there is a chance of their being granted.
Not a few Occidental publicists shared that view, but the great majority, arguing that the little Island Empire of the Far East would never risk annihilation by such an encounter, believed that forbearance sufficient to avert serious trouble would always be forthcoming on Japan's side. Yet neither geographical nor historical conditions warranted that confidence.
For Edith there was no other companion than Dudleigh in Dalton Hall with whom she could associate on equal terms; he had strong claims now on her confidence, and even on her gratitude; and while he was thus the only one to whom she could look for companionship, she also bore the same relation to him.
Bart had meant to keep his pledge in the first place, but Frank's failure to reproach him for falling, and Frank's confidence in his ability to stop smoking gave him the needed confidence in himself filled him with a determination not to be defeated. And from that hour he never again smoked a cigarette. "Now we're all right again," said Merriwell, heartily, as Bart came back from the window.
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