I will now.' Captain Willis lowered his voice to a confidential tone and said: 'Do you know, what I always say islive and let live and let it go at that; what?' 'That's a dark saying,' said Edith. 'Have a burnt almond,' said Captain Willis inconsequently, as though it would help her to understand.

"You'll see it all in the papers to-morrow, I expect," he said in a confidential tone, "so there is no harm in telling you there has been a most gruesome discovery in that locked room.

He came still nearer to the Father, speaking in a friendly, confidential tone.

" "Johnnie," said Shade, coming close, and speaking in a low confidential tone that was almost affectionate, "if I was you I wouldn't name this business to anybody.

"That big red-headed girl, you know," he said, leaning close and speaking in a confidential tone.

If I was under the tent, wiping glasses, he stood beside me; if the photographer wished to make a picture of the party, this man came to the front; and when I asked the servant to send off the half-vagrant boys and girls who stood gazing at us, this man came up and said to me in a confidential tone, 'They do not understand the sacredness of the occasion, and the fineness of the conditions.'

The three men were talking in the low confidential tone characteristic of city men when they are discussing the sacred subject of money, and Stafford caught the words"Sir Stephen""South African Railway.

All this was said seriously, without loud speaking, without gesture, in a confidential tone.

"Here was the fierceness of the Shah, but immediately the gentleness of the Apostle restored him to a more amiable mood, and coming towards me with a smile, he said, "'The explanation, my dear sir, is simple;' and then, in a quiet, confidential tone, he added: 'It was the same mother, but two fathers!'

I say, Blake," and Joe's voice took on a confidential tone, "you haven't noticed anything strange about him, have you?" "Strange?

I wish heartily," said he, in a confidential tone, "you, or Campbell, or some of your clever men, would sell me a little of their book-learning; as Valencia says to me, 'brains are so common in the world, I wonder how none fell to your share.'

But this he seemed in no hurry to do, and with a cautious look round to make sure no one was within earshot, he leaned over the counter and asked in a confidential tone: "Can you keep a secret, Miss?"

"We are not so nearly cleared out as you would think," Miles answered, in a confidential tone.

"My cousin Samuel was the sixth earl," said Jervis, taking his wife's hand and talking to her in the same quietly confidential tone that he might have used had they two been alone, instead of the centre figures of a crowded room.

Go a-head, don't give them any restI'll protect you from the consequences, whatever they be: I've great things in store for you," continued he, moving nearer and speaking in a confidential tone; "how should you like to return to Ireland a moneyed man?"

Then his voice dropped to a confidential tone.

And I'm sorry to say,' went on Miss Fouracres, in the same confidential tone, 'that the Prince is coming here.

Being written for his own eye, it is singularly outspoken; and its naïve, gossipy, confidential tone makes it a most diverting book, as it is, historically, a most valuable one.

I spoke about myself in the confidential tone in which one speaks to those nearest, who alone have the right to know everything.

The clerk, not daring to break his instructions, and seeing that it was not far from two o'clock, intimated, in a half-confidential tone, that he would do well to ask Mr. Tonsor, the broker, about them.

It was very pleasant sitting by the open windows in the summer twilight, with no artificial light in the room, except the wax candles on the piano, listening to good music, and talking a little now and then in that subdued confidential tone to which music makes such an agreeable accompaniment.

Once, when no one else happened to be near him, he said to me in a low, confidential tone, "Maria, is there anything peculiar in this room?"

Tell me" (speaking with lowered confidential tone), "do your chairs and tables ever make odd noises?" "Awful!"

They were quite alone, and after a few such observations, the Viscount lowered his voice to a confidential tone, and said, triumphantly "Will you envy me, St. Eval, if I confess that I, more than any other man, am privileged to speak in Miss Hamilton's praise, having once had the honour of being her accepted lover, and had not cruel parents interfered, might now have claimed that lovely creature as my own?

The Exhibitor (in a confidential tone, punctuated by bows).