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We arrived safe and in good time at Philadelphia, and I sold my goods there chiefly to the quakers. They always appeared to be a very honest discreet sort of people, and never attempted to impose on me; I therefore liked them, and ever after chose to deal with them in preference to any others. One Sunday morning while I was here, as I was going to church, I chanced to pass a meeting-house.
It is so; and therefore I am to go to Brussels. You have made this opportunity for yourself before I start. Perhaps I have been foolish to be taken off my guard." "Don't say that, Florence." "I shall think so, unless you can be discreet. Harry, you will have to wait. You will remember that we must wait; but I shall not change." "Nor I, nor I." "I think not, because I trust you.
He who is made ruler, who courts the people, and would reign by love, must win their affection by generosity, and dazzle their fancies by pomp. Such, I believe, is the usual maxim in Italy, which is rife in all experience of state wisdom." The Barons unanimously applauded the discreet reply of Savelli, excepting only the old Colonna.
When he judges wrong, never flatly contradict, but lead him insensibly into another opinion, in so discreet a manner, that it may seem entirely his own, and let the whole credit of every prudent determination rest on him, without indulging the foolish vanity of claiming any merit to yourself.
"Give a woman a hint of a seminary priest in disguise, and she would take a new-born baby for one. I tell thee I heard that Cuthbert was safe in Paris. But, be that as it may, I trust thou hast been discreet." "So I strove to be," said Susan. "Mrs. Kennedy questioned me, and I told her." "What?" sharply demanded her husband.
And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
The things beyond her knowledge numerous enough in truth had not hitherto, she believed, been the things that had been nearest to her: she had even had in the past a small smug conviction that in the domestic labyrinth she always kept the clue. This time too, however, she at last found out with the discreet aid, it had to be confessed, of Mrs. Wix.
It was John Heywood, the true and discreet friend, that brought her these letters, and bore her answers to him, stipulating, as a reward for this dangerous commission, that they both should regard him as the sole confidant of their love; that both should burn up the letters which he brought them.
On a perfect day, when the sky seemed blue porcelain, and the waves of the discreet little bay beat gentlest of tattoos upon the sand, Margaret hurried up through the rhododendrons, confronted again by the senselessness of Death. One death may explain itself, but it throws no light upon another: the groping inquiry must begin anew.
For we must have a witness, and our witness must be both discreet and silent." "On my silence and discretion you may rely absolutely." "And you can be here by nine?" "By daybreak, if you please." "I won't tax you to that extent. Nine will do quite well." "Adieu, then, till nine." "Adieu, and thank you."
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