counsel-keeper

Updated: May 1, 2025

"How should I tell?" answered the page; "there be such things, surely, as saints and good angels, and if there be one on earth deserves their protection, it is Dame Eveline Berenger." "Well said, Master Counsel-keeper," replied Genvil, laughing; "but that will hardly pass on an old trooper. Saint and angels, quotha? most saint-like doings, I warrant you."

Sir Walter Scott - The Betrothed

I must work an interest in her, either through love or through fear; and who knows but I may yet reap the sweetest and best revenge for her former scorn? that were indeed a masterpiece of courtlike art! Let me but once be her counsel-keeper let her confide to me a secret, did it but concern the robbery of a linnet's nest, and, fair Countess, thou art mine own!"

Sir Walter Scott - Kenilworth