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In her old sorrow at being less loved than her brother she had instinctively drawn near to Christophe. She divined that he had a similar sorrow; he saw her grief: and though they never exchanged confidences, they shared each other's feelings. Later, when she discovered the feeling that united her mother and Christophe, it seemed to her that she was in the secret, though they had never told her.
Two willow chairs were swaying to and fro in the gathering dusk, and two voices were blended in a low murmur. Theodora and Billy were exchanging the confidences born of a long week of separation while business had called Mr. Farrington to New York. "How comes on the book, Ted?" She shook her head. "It doesn't come." "Does Cicely's being here disturb you?"
According to the simple code of her world, he had gone some distance with her; he had been seen to walk out with her, he had been accounted her "fellow." He had led her to talk to him of herself he had insisted upon having her confidences.
Father Goriot's affection was of the instinctive order, a canine affection raised to a sublime pitch; he had scented compassion in the air, and the kindly respect and youthful sympathy in the student's heart. This friendship had, however, scarcely reached the stage at which confidences are made.
No interchange of confidences between these lurking mortals; they would like to speak, but pride holds them aloof; each goes on his silent and unfriended way, until, by good luck, he finds himself in hospital or workhouse, when at length the tongue is loosed, and the sore heart pours forth its reproach of the world. Strange knowledge comes to a man in this position.
The horses began to lift and were soon winding in and out of the narrow mountain pass. The chill of the overhanging snows fell upon them. "It wouldn't have hurt you to accept the blanket," said Maurice to Fitzgerald. "Curse it! I want nothing but two minutes freedom. It would be warm enough then." "No confidences, gentlemen," warned the Colonel; "I understand English tolerably well."
Gilmore was there as an acknowledged suitor, a suitor, as to whose ultimate success Aunt Sarah had her strong opinions, it would be well those cousinly-brotherly associations and confidences should not become so close as to create possible embarrassment.
And with some vague motive of giving her an idea of the extent to which she must permit herself to make confidences, I said slowly and these words too I remember with exactitude "Did Florence commit suicide? I didn't know."
There, under her hand was the instrument of revenge on the miscreant; she could make him taste of all the bitterness he had brewed for her aching spirit. But which of them would the punishment hurt most sorely: him or herself? Had not the little girl's confidences revealed a world of rapture to her and her longing heart? No, no.
Even without her friend's confidences, Justine would have had no difficulty in following the successive stages of the Amhersts' inner history.
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