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'Blow me if I don't think it's a frakkus. And," concluded Mr. Butt, with the air of one confiding a secret, "and it was a frakkus!" "And these boys actually threw you into the pond?" "Plop, sir! Mrs. Butt is drying my uniform at home at this very moment as we sit talking here, sir. She says to me, 'Why, whatever 'ave you been a-doing?
Through and beyond her answering wail, as she laid her head on the pillow, she heard the lost feet, the small betrayed feet, pattering away into darkness. When she grew stronger, it consoled her a little to talk with Mrs. Strongtharm; not confiding her regrets and self-reproaches, but speculating much on this great book of Maternity into which she had been given a glimpse. The metaphor was Mrs.
Verily, I owe Phanes thanks for confiding to me your vile intentions, and so enabling me to bind my friends and supporters, to whom Rhodopis is precious, more firmly to my throne." "And is it thus thou speakest of these strangers, my father? dost thou thus forget the ancient glory of Egypt?
And then the successful investor, searching his pockets, found an overcoat button the extent of his winter trousseau and, wrapping it carefully, placed the ostensible change in the pocket of confiding juvenility.
My disease was not a case within the province of empirics, and I bethought myself of confiding in M. de is Haye who was then dining every day with me, and made no mystery of his poverty. He placed me in the hands of a skilful surgeon, who was at the same time a dentist.
"What has he been doing now?" asked Mrs. Sewell, with reproachful discouragement. "Oh, I don't know! I suspect that he's been involving himself in some ridiculous love affair!" Mrs. Sewell looked a silent inculpation. "It's largely conjecture on my part, of course, he's about as confiding as an oyster! but I fancy I have said some things in a conditional way that will give him pause.
He himself, confiding in the affection of the inhabitants of Nantes, remained in that city, while his wife repaired to Rennes. "The Duke of Normandy advanced from Angiers with an army of 5000 men-at-arms and a numerous infantry, and after capturing the castle of Chantoceaux marched to Nantes and laid siege to the city.
It would not be hard to persuade the rather indolent and altogether confiding Katy that she was now old enough to cease bothering herself with the rules of syntax, and to devote herself to the happiness and comfort of Smith Westcott, who seemed, poor fellow, entirely unable to exist out of sight of her eyes, which he often complimented by singing, as he cut a double-shuffle on the piazza,
"Come, now, my learned friend, what makes you hesitate?" "I am unworthy of Miss Arabella," was the invariable reply of the geographer. And to this he would stick. At last, one day being fairly driven in a corner by the intractable Major, he ended by confiding to him, under the seal of secrecy, a certain peculiarity which would facilitate his apprehension should the police ever be on his track.
She sent her chamberlain, Daubusson la Feuillad, with regular compliments of condolence to every Prince who had enjoyed her protection. They returned to their homes, therefore, if not wealthier, at least happier; flattered by assurances and condescensions, confiding in hope as in certainties.
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