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Updated: June 21, 2025
"What were you before my lady took you on?... Look here, if you don't answer, I shall begin to think the secret's got to do with those." And he pointed to the dressing table, where the jewels still lay. He even put out his hand and took up the bursting sun. "You can think whatever you like," I flashed at him, "if only you'll go out of this room."
When they got into the big living-room, and Belllounds had closed the doors, the son threw down his baggage and faced his father aggressively. "Do they all know where I've been?" he asked, bitterly. Broken pride and shame flamed in his face. "Nobody knows. The secret's been kept." replied Belllounds. Amaze and relief transformed the young man.
"I'm willing to sell that secret, but not for two half-sovereigns and two or three drops of cold gin. If Maitland left all that money you told Jane Baylis of, when I was listening to you from behind the hedge, my secret's worth something." Spargo suddenly remembered his bit of bluff to Miss Baylis. Here was an unexpected result of it.
A secret's ever safely placed with honest folk and leal; And secrets trusted unto me are in a locked-up house Whose keys are lost and on whose door is set the Cadi's seal. When the girls heard this, the eldest one said to him, 'Thou knowest that we have laid out much money in preparing this entertainment: hast thou aught to offer us in return?
Yet it ran with power across the entire waking earth: My secret's in the wind and open sky, There is no longer any Time to lose; The world is young with laughter; we can fly Among the imprisoned hours as we choose. The rushing minutes pause; an unused day Breaks into dawn and cheats the tired sun. The birds are singing: Hark! Come out and play! There is no hurry; life has just begun.
The secret's told They've caught the robber's nest; A merry feast let's hold! Come, hell, and join the rest! "An author's countless band, Stalked round Cocytus' brink, Each bearing in his hand A glass for holding ink. "And into casks they drew The water, strange to say, As boys suck sweet wine through An elder-reed in play. "Quick! o'er them cast the net, Ere they have time to flee!
The Court of France, you see, can do no less than forbid us, but I should not be surprised if it winks at us on the sly. We will give them a month. Colonel Lally is a friend of mine and a friend of the King. We will get an abatement of that order, so that not one of you shall be cashiered." "I don't flinch at that," said Misset, "but the secret's out."
So, with a trifling gesture of invitation on one side, with a trifling act of compliance on the other: so with no knowledge in his mind, with no thought in hers, of the secret still hidden under the journey to London they took the way which led to that secret's discovery, through many a darker winding that was yet to come.
"O old man," rejoined she, "if thou be a man of discretion, I will discover to thee my secret; but first tell me who thou art, that I may know whether thou art worthy of confidence or not; for the poet saith: None keepeth secrets but the man who's trusty and discreet: A secret's ever safely placed with honest fold and leal; For me, my secrets I preserve within a locked-up house, Whose key is lost and on whose door is set the Cadi's seal."
"Your word and honor that you won't mention it?" "On the heads of our children, we give it." "And besides, let us remember what the great king Louis XIV. majestically said to the Doge of Venice before his assembled court: "'When a secret's told a clerk, Its exposure he'll not burk!" "Good! there is Chalamel with his proverbs!" "I demand the head of Chalamel!"
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