The very secrecy of their deliberations, of which I shall presently speak, is ample proof how indifferent they were to popular applause and the civium ardor prava jubentium.

Admiralty secrecy must be the result of a naval dislike of publicity.

Then, of course, all this secrecy was sheer tomfoolery, exactly calculated to put a careful man on his guard; as it has actually done.

Since Veronica knew everything and was satisfied, it was not necessary that he should be informed of what had taken place, and this secrecy was the keeping of Veronica's promise that Matilde should be safe.

Secrecy would be an important element in its success.

Secrecy Is for the happymisery, hopeless misery, Needeth no veil!

The secrecy with which the ceremony was performed was but a fiction.

" "Well, poor man" (Giles was rather struck by this epithet), "if secrecy was his object, he has made that at least impossible.

Secrecy, therefore, was our only safe course, and that required both skill and caution.

But secrecy is the very essence of deep and insidious conduct.

As secrecy was a duty incumbent upon the troubadour, he usually referred to the lady by a pseudonym (senhal); naturally, the lady's reputation was increased if her attraction for a famous troubadour was known, and the senhal was no doubt an open secret at times.