"I must ask you to treat this as entirely confidential, Glossop, but I may as well inform you that it is not twenty-four hours since she turned me down.

"He says this little collection is a very rare one, and worth an awfully large sum of money," Sallie went on to remark, in something of a confidential tone, as if getting the boys ready to be surprised when they looked upon the possessions of the industrious professor.

masterly; and Mr. TOM REYNOLDS is excellent as the confidential clerk.

Probably he was a kind of gentleman of all work; an officer in his guards, a companion to amuse, and a confidential agent for the transaction of business.

So, half-aide and half-secretary, he became at once the confidential adviser of the General, and was employed by him not only in his multitudinous correspondence, but in difficult negotiations, and in those delicate duties which required discretion and tact.

He severely criticised most every member of Congress, if not openly, at least in his confidential letters; while in his public efforts with tongue and pen he showed more power than discretion.

The most confidential ministers dared not assume any familiarity with the President.

Business of this nature which (necessarily) is daily and peremptory will always prevail over that which is general and confidential.

Vibullius, as soon as the alarm, which Caesar's unexpected arrival had raised, was over, began again to deliver Caesar's message in the presence of Libo, Lucius Lucceius, and Theophanes, to whom Pompey used to communicate his most confidential secrets.

He spoke with all the flattering charm of the confidential.

"Why, of course!" said Hilda, clinching the affair, in an intimate, confidential murmur.

Mr. Cannon sat next to her mother, and Hilda put down the tinkling cup and saucer on the white cloth between them; and as she did so Mr. Cannon turned and thanked her with a confidential smile, to which she responded.

The wisest and most humane rule for a traveller toward his companion is to 'Be to their faults a little blind; Be to their virtues very kind;' and to consider all that is said and done on board, like what passes among the members of the same club, as on the whole private and confidential.

I mean to give you a confidential commission.

A LETTER FROM ROSE GARDINER Ben resumed his place as the secretary and confidential clerk of Mrs. Hamilton.

" "Well, sir, he is and he isn't, as you may say," answers he, dropping into a familiar, confidential tone after casting his eye over me to be sure I was no great person.

"You leave things to me," said Mr. Kybird, with a confidential wink.

At the same time I surely need not add, how very confidential such communications ought to be." Mr. I. D'Israeli to John Murray.

Everything, from the beginning to the end of the issue of a workthe first inspection of the MS., the consultation with confidential friends as to its fitness for publication, the form in which it was to appear, the correction of the proofs, the binding, title, and final advertisementengaged his closest attention.

In accordance with his plan of secrecy, he desired Dr. Ireland, his executor, to destroy all confidential letters, especially those relating to the Review, so that the names of the authors, as well as the prices paid for each article, might never be known.

These long confidential communications led eventually to the suggestion of a much more ambitious and hazardous scheme, the establishment of a daily paper in the Conservative interest.

The Chevalier and M. have unburthened themselves to me in a manner the most confidential that you can possibly conceive.

Infinitely bored by the whiskerless attaché, who had entered upon a disquisition on the genius of Rossini as compared with this new man Meyerbeer, her ladyship made believe to hear, while she listened intently to the confidential murmurs of the group on the hearthrug, the little knot of personages clustered round Lord Denyer.

Fly to his help, all pious maidens, and pour into the wounded heart of the holy man the healing balm of self-conceit; cover his table with confidential letters, choose him as your father-confessor, and lock yourself up alone with him for an hour or two every week, while the wife is mending his shirts upstairs.

He received a mercantile education, and was for several years the confidential clerk of his master.