United States or Spain ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Impatient for the experiment, as soon as I reached home, I summoned my confidential servant, a young man of gay spirits, fearless temper, and as free from superstitious prejudice as anyone I could think of. F ," said I, "you remember in Germany how disappointed we were at not finding a ghost in that old castle, which was said to be haunted by a headless apparition?
Wherry had been with General Schofield from the first campaign in Missouri in 1861, and both were with Lyon when he fell at Wilson's Creek. He remained his confidential aide through the whole war, and for years afterward, being early appointed from Missouri to the line of one of the new regiments of the regular army.
They sat facing each other across the little deal table, whose stains were now hidden by a cloth, and to light them they had four tapers set in silver candlesticks of magnificent workmanship, and most wondrous weight, which Tardivet informed his guest had been the property of a ci-devant prince of the blood. As the night wore on Captain Charlot grew boisterous and more confidential.
Gordon, let me see it right away, so it can get accustomed to me. Poor Jane! I wish I could have got here in time to see her, she and I were such friends long ago. We were far more intimate and confidential than ever her and Charlotte was. Charlotte knows that, too!" The vim with which Miss Rosetta snapped this out rather amazed Mrs. Gordon, who couldn't understand it at all.
"Good Cochenille!" Ludwig called out to him. "Dearest Monsieur Cochenille, to what do I owe this pleasure?" Euchar, declaring that important engagements called him away, left his friend alone with the confidential servant of Count Walther Puck.
It is very personal and very confidential and you must promise not to tell any one yet. Will you?" "Eh? Why, sartin, of course." "Yes. I hope you may be glad to hear it. It would make you glad to know that I was happy, wouldn't it?" For the first time Jed did not answer in the instant.
For my letters are not of the sort to make their non-delivery a matter of indifference; they contain so many confidential secrets that I do not as a rule trust them even to an amanuensis, for fear of some jest leaking out in some direction or another.
"To how many poles is the magnet usually constant?" inquired the Count with a serious air. The Baron smiled a little foolishly, and then, with a confidential air, replied "Ach, Bonker, marriage is blessed and it is happy, and it is everyzing that my heart desires; only I jost sometimes vish it vas not qvite qvite so uninterruptable!"
At this moment a race, the last on the card, put a stop to further conversation, and Netty refused, very properly, to deprive Martin of the use of his field-glasses. "I can see," she said, in her confidential way, "well enough for myself with my own eyes." And Martin looked into the eyes, so vaunted, with much interest. "I am sure," she said to Wanda, when the race was over, "that I saw Mr.
Roger de Blonay and his two principal guests rode in front, the former seated on a war-horse that he had ridden years before as a soldier, and the two latter well mounted on beasts prepared for, and accustomed to, the mountains. Adelheid and Christine came next, riding by themselves, in the modest reserve of their maiden condition. Their discourse was low, confidential, and renewed at intervals.
Word Of The Day