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Sylvia gave no thought to his attitude at the moment. He had come that was enough. And Garratt Skinner, turning about, saw the light in his daughter's face. "You know him!" he cried, roughly. "Yes." "He has come to see you?" "Yes." "You should have told me," said Garratt Skinner, angrily. "I dislike secrecies." Sylvia raised her eyes and looked her father steadily in the face.
He did not wish to lay claim to the hours of his love as though they were a stolen possession; he did not wish to sneak across bridges and through halls; he did not wish to whisper; he did not wish to lie in wait for a secret tryst; he rebelled at the thought of coming and going in fear and trembling. There is not the slightest use to investigate all the secrecies between Daniel and Eleanore.
Thou knowest my devotion to the spirit that breathes its inspiration in the gloom of forests and on the verge of streams. I love to immerse myself in shades and dells, and hold converse with the solemnities and secrecies of nature in the rude retreats of Norwalk.
Yet I knew that all over that great valley the earth was crawling with life and full of immense and sinister secrecies the galleries of the sappers, the trenches and redoubts, the hiding-places of great guns, the concealed observations of the watchers. Yes, it was just such a scene as this. The only difference was that you had not to put your ear to the ground to catch the thunder of the guns.
"And very mysterious," he added. "Who can account for either?" "There is no reason why they should be accounted for in our case," Miss Ainsley remarked. "Woman should always remain a mystery." "Yes, I suppose she must so remain in her deepest nature," he replied, sotto voce, "but is there any need for small secrecies?" "That question would have to be explained before I could answer it.
This wasn't the way people usually felt in London, she knew; but strenuous ardent observant girl as she was, with secrecies of sentiment and dim originalities of attitude, she had already made up her mind that London was no treasure-house of delicacies. Remembrance there was hammered thin to be faithful was to make society gape.
This was the result of a visit that he himself had paid his repudiated wife at her urgent request, their only encounter during the fifteen years. The girl knew as much as this from her aunt Julia, who was full of tell-tale secrecies. She availed herself eagerly of the license, and in course of the period that elapsed before her father's death she spent with Mrs.
Small secrecies, trickeries, tiptoeing through the maze all these things revolted that part of his nature which was, perhaps, unchangeable. They seemed to him unmanly.
Among these simple, straight-forward people, there are no secrecies in love affairs; and the first thing Jamie did was to return to the cottage with Christina to make known the engagement they had entered into. They met Andrew on the sands. He had been disappointed. Sophy had gone out with a friend, and her aunt had seemed annoyed and had not asked him to wait.
Its vices cannot compare for a moment in this respect with the monstrous tragedies and almost suffocating secrecies and villainies of the Court of James I. But the dram-drinking and nose-slitting of the saturnalia of Charles II. seem at once more human and more detestable than the passions and poisons of the Renaissance, much in the same way that a monkey appears inevitably more human and more detestable than a tiger.
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