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?
"Thomas Sawyer, this is the most astounding confession I have ever listened to.
" Then her conscience reproached her, and she yearned to say something kind and loving; but she judged that this would be construed into a confession that she had been in the wrong, and discipline forbade that.
" And he questions whether an ashtray could have been taken from the palace in 1998, saying that it had been a non-smoking zone since well before Denise Van Outen's confession.
: A man walks into a confession booth and says, "I have sinned.
So it's humbling to come to you now with another confession: The iPhone XS and the iPhone XS Max may be making me a convert to bigger smartphones.
