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But as to the wrong in regard to Fanny, I am not so sure that it only consists in a disturbance of her mind." There was a look of mystery, blended with anxious concern, in the countenance of Aunt Grace, that caused Mrs. Markland to say, quickly "Speak out what is in your thoughts, Grace. Have no concealments with me, especially on a subject like this."
He was not candid; he did not shun concealments and evasions; but positive lies he had kept from, and now he could not trust one to save his life. He unlocked the door and ran out to find help; he must do that at last; he must do it at any risk; no matter what he said afterward. When our deeds and motives come to be balanced at the last day, let us hope that mercy, and not justice, may prevail.
He now began to open his mind with great freedom, gave a particular account of the vessel, where they had taken in their cargo at France, and what it consisted of; the day they sailed, and the time they were on their passage; and at last concluded with acquainting them they had landed and concealed part of their valuable cargo in the out-houses of Squire Mallock, of Cockington, and the remainder in those of Squire Cary, of Tor-abbey, both which houses, upon account of their situation on the sea-side, were very noted for such concealments.
Rochecliffe, surprised and somewhat alarmed by the vehemence of her grief "Maiden, I must have no concealments; I must know." "Exert your ingenuity, then, and discover it," said Alice for a moment put out of temper at the Doctor's pertinacious self-importance "Guess my purpose, as you can guess at every thing else.
New supplies of plates were constantly being produced from strange concealments, and finally the tables and chairs were broken to pieces, and each object on the walls was torn down and flung in bits on to the gorgeous general debris, to the top of which clambered the violet hat, necklace and yellow petticoat, brandishing one single little plate, whose life had been miraculously spared.
"But for all that, your violence quite takes me by surprise. I can't account for it, unless" he hesitated a moment, and then finished the sentence in his usual frank, outspoken way "unless you are sweet yourself on Miss Gwilt." Those last words heaped fuel on the fire. They stripped the truth instantly of all concealments and disguises, and laid it bare to view.
She had an engagement, and she would not tell him what it was; she made a secret of it. Be the secret little or great, she knew how he disliked all such concealments. Was it possible that he was deceived in Charlotte after all?
I was disguised for a particular purpose, which I cannot explain to you. But may I not request the name of the gentleman to whom I am under so many obligations? Of course, if you have any reasons for concealing it, consider the question as not asked." "No," I replied, Smiling, "I have no concealments.
But as a memory, nothwithstanding such conditions, Lucetta's image still lived on with him, her weaknesses provoking only the gentlest criticism, and her sufferings attenuating wrath at her concealments to a momentary spark now and then.
You know well to what extremes passion can lead when circumstances favor its fierce, its all-invading growth. "What is most bitter to me is the thought of having employed artifice, deceit, and base concealments I who was truth itself. I am humiliated in my own estimation. But is this the greatest perversity into which the soul can fall? Am I beginning now, or have I ended? I cannot tell.
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