She could not trust herself to utter the full forgiveness that rose in answer to that confession.
The hovering thought that they must and would renounce each other made this moment of mute confession more intense in its rapture.
" "But suppose, Maggie,—suppose it was a man who was not conceited, who felt he had nothing to be conceited about; who had been marked from childhood for a peculiar kind of suffering, and to whom you were the day-star of his life; who loved you, worshipped you, so entirely that he felt it happiness enough for him if you would let him see you at rare moments——" Philip paused with a pang of dread lest his confession should cut short this very happiness,—a pang of the same dread that had kept
The duteous merciful constancy of his wife had delivered him from one dread, but it could not hinder her presence from being still a tribunal before which he shrank from confession and desired advocacy.
She had begun her confession under the subduing influence of Dorothea's emotion; and as she went on she had gathered the sense that she was repelling Will's reproaches, which were still like a knife-wound within her.
He had looked forward to her learning the truth from others, and had acquiesced in that probability, as something easier to him than any confession.
If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all, to whatever confession we belong, and whether we believe in the future perfection of our race or in the nearest date fixed for the end of the world; whether we regard the earth as a putrefying nidus for a saved remnant, including ourselves, or have a passionate belief in the solidarity of mankind.
It should never be true of him that in this meeting to which he had come with bitter resolution he had ended by a confession which might be interpreted into asking for her fortune.
Their most characteristic result was not the "Key to all Mythologies," but a morbid consciousness that others did not give him the place which he had not demonstrably merited—a perpetual suspicious conjecture that the views entertained of him were not to his advantage—a melancholy absence of passion in his efforts at achievement, and a passionate resistance to the confession that he had achieved nothing.
Rosamond had to make her little confession, and he poured out words of gratitude and tenderness with impulsive lavishment.
Fred liked it too, knowing it by heart even to the attic which smelt deliciously of apples and quinces, and until to-day he had never come to it without pleasant expectations; but his heart beat uneasily now with the sense that he should probably have to make his confession before Mrs.
(It was impossible now to doubt the directness of Dorothea's confession.
" She smiled to cover her shyness, and I fancied she had a fear that I would make the sort of gibe that such a confession could hardly have failed to elicit from Rose Waterford.
What had she to say that would not humble herself and pain her family, that would not increase her own grief by the confession of it, extend an useless resentment, and perhaps involve the innocent with the guilty in undistinguishing ill will?
"No," said he, "my father's hands need not be strengthened, and Frederick's confession of folly need not be forestalled.
The anxious affection, which she was accused of having continually watched in Isabella's every look and action, had, in the course of their yesterday's party, received the delightful confession of an equal love.
Its being pay day precipitated Lotty's confession, which she had, when it came to the point, been inclined to put off a little longer.
A Concert a Catastrophe and a Confession MARILLA, can I go over to see Diana just for a minute?
Anne's Confession ON the Monday evening before the picnic Marilla came down from her room with a troubled face.
"Were you listening to a confession?
