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Raymond and I have written a note in reply." "Shall I go away, Vi, and leave you and your mamma to your confidences?" Mr. Dinsmore asked playfully, putting an arm about each and looking with smiling eyes from one to the other. "No, grandpa, please stay; you know I have no secrets from you," Violet answered, half hiding her face on his shoulder.
Confound the objectionable idiot, what did he mean by taking that intimate tone with a man who was not prepared to concern himself in his affairs? "Excuse me," he said, holding up an authoritative hand, "are you going to make a confession? I don't like such things. I prefer to be excused. Personal confidences are not parochial matters." "This one is."
The guards or keepers do not go about visibly armed with revolvers or rifles; talking and smoking are not prohibited; the grotesque assemblage is let out into the corridors occasionally, where they shamble up and down and exchange observations and confidences; and they have an hour outdoors in the stone paved, high-walled yard.
He imagined confidences, sudden sights of her face more exquisite than the Botticelli women in the echoing picture galleries, more enigmatic than the eyes of a Leonardo; and in these days of desire, he lived through the torment of impersonal love, drawn for the first time out of himself. All beautiful scenes of love from books, pictures, and life floated in his mind.
I was young and fell into dangerous company, made a fool of myself yes, as true as you see me sitting here. Drank to forget. Thought it a great dodge." Powell looked at the grotesque Franklin with awakened interest and with that half-amused sympathy with which we receive unprovoked confidences from men with whom we have no sort of affinity.
Let you have what confidences you will, they will no longer imply falsehood to me." "Then, sir, if such be the case, I think you may cease to scold me with such violence." "I have long felt that I ought to give you this release; for I have known that you have not thoroughly loved me."
He found some answer to that question in the captain's manner to Jack Redhill, the abstractor of the portmanteau, and his old shipmate, who was accompanying the captain in some dependent capacity, but who received his master's confidences and orders with respectful devotion. It was a cold, foggy morning, nearly two months later, that they landed at Plymouth.
I am not quite convinced that he saw all the people he said he did, or whether all the extraordinary confidences were made to him which he related to the public, but he certainly impressed people very much, and I suppose his letters as newspaper correspondent were quite wonderful.
At which savage attack the Honourable Fungus's face grew as white as the major's was red, and he began to wish that he had been more reserved in his confidences to some of his acquaintances respecting the exclusiveness of the club in question, or at least refrained from holding up the major's pilling as a proof thereof.
He has been accustomed to have women hanging around him like votive offerings." "You cannot: of course not: any one could see that at a glance. You are all the sweeter to me for not being tame. Marriage cures a multitude of indispositions." "Oh! Mrs. Mountstuart, will you listen to me?" "Presently. Don't threaten me with confidences. Eloquence is a terrible thing in woman.
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