"And now her lover comes back very much alive, though covered with Paynim scars, and the secret av her207 birth is discovered through the dying confession av the old nurse and the birthmark on her arm.
Writing to him seemed to bring him so near; and she told him everything, with a certain honesty of confession that was characteristic of her—her triumphs, her failures, her joys, her sorrows, everything went down on the letter-bills of a Government which had not been so economical of paper as it afterwards became.
And she felt, in another way, that he was equal with her, as she thought of his sturdy and simple confession, and of the loyal love in his voice when he spoke of his father.
With this unconfessed confession, her letters glowed; it kindled them, from greeting to adieu.
"No; he only comes occasionally to worship his beloved saint, to make his confession to me, and to pay his respects to her he calls his mother.
Home did not lift his eyes from his breakfast-plate for about two minutes, nor did he speak; perhaps he had not caught the words—perhaps he thought that on a confession of that nature, politeness would interdict comment: the Scotch are proverbially proud; and homely as was Mr.
Perhaps the worthy man might, half unconsciously, have blent in this proceeding some little of the subtlety of his class: it might have been his resolve to learn the locality of your home—did you impart that in your confession?
I hesitated; of the formula of confession I was ignorant: instead of commencing, then, with the prelude usual, I said:—"Mon père, je suis Protestante.
"J'ai menti plusieurs fois," formed an item of every girl's and woman's monthly confession: the priest heard unshocked, and absolved unreluctant.
One Murphy, a gipsy horse-dealer, was on the moor at no great distance at the time, but he appears by his own confession to have been the worse for drink.
CHAPTER 26 OWEN FORD'S CONFESSION "I'm so sorry Gilbert is away," said Anne.
Ever since the day on which she had made her confession to Anne Leslie had been a changed creature.
Hareton looked at his plate, and did not repeat the confession.
Edgar had been worse than ordinary, a thing never known from his confession, but guessed both by her and me from his increased silence and the melancholy of his countenance.
" And, indeed, the day of confession was near.
And the time was near, when, as it seemed, almost involuntarily urged by his conscience, a terrible confession escaped him.
" Quite a thrill pervaded the school at this confession, for Jerry was one of the wild fellows the boys all shunned, and to have any dealings with him was considered a very disgraceful thing.
"Maggie," she said, in a low voice, that had the solemnity of confession in it, "you are better than I am.
She craved that outward help to her better purpose which would come from complete, submissive confession; from being in the presence of those whose looks and words would be a reflection of her own conscience.
And yet, since this strange, sweet, subduing influence did not, should not, conquer her,—since it was to remain simply her own suffering,—her mind was meeting Stephen's in that thought of his, that they might still snatch moments of mute confession before the parting came.
