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They were still more convinced of her superiority when they saw her welcomed by the well-known Baroness X., and afterwards engaged in a very confidential conversation with that lady. But they would have been still more surprised had they known the tenor of that conversation. "I am afraid you will find the Spa very empty just now," said the baroness critically.
On his way home he paused at sundry shop windows all jewellers'. And he entered one shop, not a jeweller's, but the little stationery and fancy goods shop owned by Miss M. Tod, and managed, with perhaps more conscience than physical toil, by the girl he had been courting for two years without having reached anything that could be termed a definite understanding, though their relations were of the most friendly and confidential nature.
"Very well, very well indeed!" said Lumley, rubbing his hands; and turning to his letters, his attention was drawn to one with an enormous seal, marked "Private and confidential." He knew before he opened it that it contained the offer of the appointment alluded to in the newspaper.
Washington's letter was intercepted, and the English, upon seeing that confidential communication, never doubted for a moment but the real intention of the Americans was to attack New York: their own security at Yorktown was therefore complete.~ The Count de Grasse, however, arrived with a naval force, and three thousand troops~ for the land service.
"Near Lucca on the mountains." "H'm. Is that all true about your grandfather?" "That he's ill? Of course, it's true!" she said indignantly. "We don't tell lies. He's had a stroke he's dying. And we could hardly give him any food he could eat. You see " She edged a little closer, and began a voluble, confidential account of their life in the mountains.
He did not orate, he did not "thunder at the jury," nor did he slyly flatter them; he did not overdo the confidential, nor seem so secure of understanding beforehand what their verdict would be that they felt an instinctive desire to fool him.
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 prejudices as any one 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?
But, dear me! how much work all this private criticism involves! An editor has only to say "respectfully declined," and there is the end of it. But the confidential adviser is expected to give the reasons of his likes and dislikes in detail, and sometimes to enter into an argument for their support. That is more than any martyr can stand, but what trials he must go through, as it is!
Baiæ was also a great naval station, and there was at this time a fleet stationed there, or rather at the promontory of Misenum, a few miles beyond, under the command of one of Nero's confidential servants, named Anicetus. The naval celebration was to take place in connection with this fleet. It was an annual festival, and was to continue five days.
"If there's a weakness in him I haven't found it." Ives put on a look of confidential assurance. "Be sure it's there. Only it isn't of the ordinary kind. Banneker is pretty big in his way. No," he pursued thoughtfully; "it isn't women, and it isn't Wall Street, and it isn't drink; it isn't even money, in the usual sense. But it's something.
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