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They were, indeed, frequently seen settling on the hands of the children, who soon learned to make pets of the confiding little creatures. On several occasions after this large flocks pursued by hawks came for shelter among their friends, when the birds of prey seldom escaped the captain's gun.
And then he was standing close to her, and Saltash, laughing, pushed him forward. "Do you know this fellow, ma chère?" The wide blue eyes came up to his with a pleased smile of comradeship. "Why, it's Bunny!" the clear voice said. "I'm so glad you're here too in this ogre's castle." Her hand gave his a little confiding squeeze, and Bunny's fingers gripped in answer.
He went directly to Vicar's Dale to see and consult him, and Ormond thought he was confiding a profound secret to the doctor, when first he spoke to him of his passion for Miss Annaly; but to his surprise, the doctor told him he had seen it long ago, and his wife and daughters had all discovered it, even when they were first with him at Annaly. "Is it possible? and what do you all think?"
The cautious governess wondered, but half disposed to fancy that there was no more than the necessary freedom of a ship in it all, for, like a true Frenchwoman, Mademoiselle Viefville had very vague notions of the secrets of the mighty deep she permitted it to pass, confiding in the long-tried taste and discretion of her charge. While Mr.
"You will think it strange," he said with a smile, "that I should have taken the liberty of confiding to you my secret. But when you have seen what is there, you will perceive that you are the most fitting confidant in this country for general reasons, of course; for I need not say there is nothing in those papers which concerns you personally."
Can any Jew, we ask, however devout, appreciate more fully than a Christian the Old Testament descriptions of the unity and perfections of Jehovah, or prostrate himself with a more simple, undivided, and confiding heart before the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
I nodded to her, as every Italian, seeing a sweet woman manifesting concern in his danger which has aroused the general attention, would do. I nodded gaily and waved to her as though to thank her for her sympathy. She just gave a little smile and nodded back, not blushing, nor embarrassed or prudish but grave and confiding as though she had expected it.
Lucien heard the great lady with inexpressible pleasure; the flatteries were spoken with such a petulant, childlike, confiding air, and she seemed to take such a deep interest in him, that he thought of his first evening at the Panorama-Dramatique, and began to fancy that some such miracle was about to take place a second time.
The next morning brought another short note from Marianne still affectionate, open, artless, confiding everything that could make MY conduct most hateful. I could not answer it. I tried but could not frame a sentence. But I thought of her, I believe, every moment of the day.
Francesco woke and came out of his corner and laid his nose on Rodney's knee with his confiding grin. "Yes, that's San Francesco. Rather nice, isn't he. He's coming with us too. I called him Francesco instead of Francis that he might feel at home in Italy." "Oh, in Italy."
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