safety-silence

Updated: August 22, 2026

For sure, I reasoned, if Margery's messenger should fail to pass the sentries there would be clamor enough to tell me of it. So while the minutes of this safety-silence multiplied and there was space for sober after-thought, I fell to casting up the chances of success.

Francis Lynde - The Master of Appleby: A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady