I may not tell you why; how dare I confide my woes to anyone?
This appeared particularly to be the case when he heard Waverley's history, which he did not scruple to confide to him.
Confide your interest to me; I will not betray it, providing you do not again assume that vile cockade.
Or had she hoped to find an artless and impressionable girl, who would confide to her all that had been done, up to the present, to unravel the mystery of Monkton's disappearance?
Well, that was one of the things that never would be revealed to her circle, unless she chose to confide it to her bosom friend, Mrs Adair.
But if the security of the nation requires an army, would it not be madness to send those troops to a distant part of the world, in which we can confide most!
But about your secret, my child; would you refuse to confide in me?
Mademoiselle, I did not wish to confide in anyone in Paris, for somebody told me there were pickpockets who would steal my treasure.
Oh, it's a secret, it's a marvellous secret, which I shall confide to monsieur.
I cannot confide it to you, Brockelmann,' I replied, 'but you will know it soon.
I longed to beg the girl beside me: 'Anna Maria, confide in me; it is not yet too late!
Mrs. Leyburn wanted to confide in her about a new cap, and Catherine took up the subject with a zest which kept her mother happy till bedtime.
Why should it be to her so new and strange a thing that a man, especially a man of these years and this calibre, should confide in her, should speak to her intimately of himself?
But the sharpest sting of this torment was that it came with a secret sense of shame, which rendered me unable to confide my thoughts to another.
I have not trembled for my own security, because I confide in my king and master as in my God, and I feel assured that he will ever observe his solemn oath and will never abandon me.
We must not tempt fortune; we are sure to suffer when we confide in fortune.
Confide in me again, look at this matter from a natural point of view, permit me to reason with you on the subject, and I may still hope to bring about a good understanding between us.
I will believe in, and confide in you; I will live, because you tell me to live!
Lay aside all care and fear, Wilhelmine, and confide in me.
His impulse is to confide the good news to that kind-hearted sister who stands smiling at this handsome patient.
Avoid these strangers about whom he knows nothing; confide first in his friends; with them and the police search for the body of Alice Webster.
I may not confide them to either until her identity is confessed and her conduct explained.
He must confide in Sir Donald, and thereby secure his aid.
Fully confide in me, and I will aid you in recovery of the big estate taken from Alice by Pierre Lanier.
Charles had said nothing about these circumstances, and, we suspected, did not care to confide in the agency.
I have told you all I know,' she said; 'it is your turn to confide in me.
I commend to thee Orestilla, and confide her to thy faith.
Write what you have to say, my lady, and confideit to me.
I may tell you: there is nothing I would not confide to you: he has let fall some dubious words in private.
But with such an account of the business as that you have given me, I do not know that I feel disposed to confide the savings of my life to assist so very doubtful an enterprise.
And yet he had become a Knight of the Garter, and was therefore, presumably, one of those noble Englishmen to whom the majesty of the day was willing to confide the honour, and glory, and safety of the Crown.
To but one man--and he only under the pledge of a secrecy almost Masonic in its power to bind--did Mr. Birdseye confide the completed plan of his campaign.
Thanks to his mode of life, his practical isolation in the midst of five million other beings, he needed to confide in but one person; and in Hartigan he found that person.
No difference if one is ready to confide the contents of the letter the moment it is read, there is still a pleasure in opening one's own correspondence.
He sliced for her the damp and pinkish beef, since she would not confide to him her deep and feminine loathing of this fare.
Course I didn't confide in him that I watered it well with bay rum and rosemary every night.
But he bade the Inca take courage and confide in him, for the Spaniards were a generous race, warring only against those who made war on them, and showing grace to all who submitted!
Even supposing that Atahuallpa should entertain friendly feelings towards the Christians, they could not confide in the continuance of such feelings.
Though living in Lima, and, as might be supposed, under the influence of Pizarro, he had a reputation for integrity that disposed Almagro to confide the settlement of the question exclusively to him.
The discrepancy shows how little we can confide in the accuracy of such estimates.
Pizarro, in reply, assured his companion that he had faithfully urged his suit, but that the government refused to confide powers which intrenched so closely on one another to different hands.
He remonstrated with the Spanish commanders on their unsoldierlike despondency; encouraged them to confide in the loyalty of the Moriscos; and advised the immediate erection of fortifications along the shores for their protection.
Egerton was one of those men who never confide their affairs frankly to women.
Who would confide to a woman things in which she could do nothing, except to tease one the more?
There is not a soul I can unreservedly confide in, and yet I have to treat everyone as a friend.
How often do I communicate to my piano all that I would confide to you.
Every boy realised that it was incumbent upon him to develop his individual character, and that it was impossible for his masters to confide in him if he failed to confide in them.
She could not forget the scrap of conversation which she had heard the night before, nor the secret which her sister had refused to confide to her.
In her heart of hearts Clara, like every good woman, was a match-maker, and already she had chosen Denver of all men as the one to whom she could most safely confide Ida.
To confide the secret to one, was to put an end to my privilege: how widely the knowledge would thenceforth be diffused, I had no power to foresee.
Confide not in the firmness of your principles, or the stedfastness of your integrity.
He silently disregarded her desire to confidein him, and to get him to confide in her.
She had no one in whom she could confide and so all her troubles were pent up, and weighed heavily upon her: sometimes she thought she must give way under them: but she set her teeth and struggled on.
Sometimes he would confidehis artistic troubles to her.
He tried to get her to confide in him: but she was much less open than he.
Heads of families were stretching over the benches to confide to each other how long it was since they had seen the minister; how he never had visited as he ought; and how desirable "a change" might prove.
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