A sudden and tremendous blow on the gong announced to the alarmed females, who had ventured from their secret place, under the present amicable appearances between the two ships, not only his presence, but his humour.

"Gertrude, my love, where are we? Lead me to some secret place.

It is this powerful (and to a landsman incomprehensible) charm that forms the secret tie which binds the mariner so closely to his vessel, and which often leads him to prize her qualities as one would esteem the virtues of a friend, and almost to be equally enamoured of the fair proportions of his ship and of those of his mistress.

What secret of recompense had this poor wretch found?

But the study bothers them, the secret baffles them.

At the period of which we are speaking, there was probably not a single man at the North, of well-furnished and well-balanced mindwho stood clear in heart and pocket of all secret or interested bias toward the Souththat deliberately recognized the probability of the dissolution of the Union.

SECRET LOVE OR THE MAIDEN QUEEN.

You were gay humoured, and you now are pensive; Once calm, and now unquiet: Pardon my boldness, that I press thus far Into your secret thoughts: I have, at least, A subject's share in you.

First, promise me thou wilt excuse my folly; And, next, be secret.

Shall I sing the song, you made of Philocles, And called it Secret Love? Queen.

But she in secret hates me, sure; for why, If not, should she Candiope deny? Ast.

Fate ne'er strikes deep, but when unkindness joins: For, to confess the secret of my mind, Something so tender for the queen I find, That even Candiope can scarce remove,

She charged me, not this secret to betray; But I best serve her, if I disobey.

For, if he loves, 'twas for her interest done; If not, he'll keep it secret for his own.

O heavens, the secret of my soul's betrayed!

As he is a favourite of yours, I do not doubt your preserving his secret inviolate.

A sudden pang of conscience smote the heart of the mistaken girl at these words, a sob rose choking in her throat, and she longed to have given vent to the tears which pride, anger, and remorse were summoning, but she would not, and answered according to those evil whisperings, which before she had only indulged in secret.

You would have prevented future suffering, by banishing from the first all secret hopes; but no, you wished to prove you could accomplish more than others, by captivating one so reserved and superior as St. Eval.

" Such was the tenor of her secret thoughts, and she followed them up by writing to her friend a lengthened and heightened description of all that had occurred that morning, dwelling long and indignantly on what she termed the cruel and unjust severity of her mother, and imploring, as such confidential letters generally did, Annie's secrecy and sympathy.

Caroline's irritability increased, and Annie's secret letters were ever at hand to soothe while they excited.

Willingly she consented, only requesting that Lady Helen would not mention her intentions either to Annie or Miss Malison till her husband had been consulted, and to this Lady Helen willingly consented, for in secret she dreaded Miss Malison's lamentations and reproaches, when this arrangement should be known.

But Caroline guessed not the deep pang she had inflicted; she knew not the many tears shed in secret, the many inward prayers offered up for her, that however severe was her chastening, it might be blessed, and bring her back to the deserted fold, to the bosom of her mother.

Caroline's own maid, Fanny, had been persuaded to become the means of receiving and sending their intelligence in secret.

She believed it was the conduct of her parents; the chain that was thrown round her actions, her disappointment with regard to Lord Alphingham; for he was not, as in secret she hoped, he would be, one of the invited guests.

Many secret marriages are happier, very much happier, than those for which the consent of parents have been obtained.

One of them, an American, was a man of about thirty years, clean-shaven, square-jawed, with light, steely, secretive gray eyes, and a look of intelligence and assurance that did not harmonize with his motley garb.

We know also that the thyroid dominant tends to be irritable and excitable, the pituitary deficient to be placid and gentle, the adrenal dominant to be assertive and pugnacious, the thymus-centered to be childish and easy-go-lucky and the gonad deficient to be secretive and shy.

The ape-parvenu, desperately lonely and secretive, has still to understand himself.

Certainly Mrs. Dumble was a woman of silence, secretive, with lips tightly compressed, as ifas Ajax remarkedshe feared that some of John Jacob's peccadilloes might escape from them.

He seemedominous circumstance!especially secretive regarding certain details of his past.

"So," said Madame, when all had been explained, "you were put on by our dear, fiery Froissart, and I by the dear, secretive Dawson.

But in execution he admits sorrowfully that he cannot hold a candle to his brutal secretive English chief.

"In Berlin I think they are not fond of me, and they are so pompous and secretive.

Therefore, if I should send an agent to New Orleans at any time to obtain tidings of the sister, those cautious friends would doubtless consider it a trap of the creditors, and would be very secretive.

While Graham and the doctor walked to the back of the hall to telephone, Katherine, an anxious figure, a secretive one, beckoned Bobby to the library.

Don is secretive, you know.

The book-form, in which the board still conceals itself, stands as a memorial of its secretive preservation upon the shelves of the monastic libraries.

Jane had been very strange and secretive about his visit there on the fatal evening.

At the toe, however, the horny and secretive laminæ are widely separated, and the space between them filled with a yellow, semi-solid material, the remains of the inflammatory exudate and new horn secreted by the keratogenous membrane.

In a country of the area of India, inhabited by a superstitious, secretive and ignorant population, it is impossible to compel the natives to report accidents and deaths, particularly among the Brahmins, who burn instead of bury their dead.

Though the dean was habitually secretive in what he did, he had some reason for not wishing to say in public that he had written so bitter a satire on the government and on mankind.

she asked, with a secretive attempt to take a good look at him.

It flowed with such grandeur in its silence and solitude; old and gray and austere, it was a mighty expression of wilderness power,resistless, immortal, eternally secretive.

"I can't go into the reasons as deeply now as I hope to a little later," he had said, his secretive habit holding good to the final fathom of the slipping hawser of events.

" Kent fell back on his secretive habit yet once again.

What really happens at a general election is that the party organisationsobscure and secretive conclaves with entirely mysterious fundsappoint about 1,200 men to be our rulers, and all that we, we so-called self-governing people, are permitted to do is, in a muddled, angry way, to strike off the names of about half of these selected gentlemen.

It follows that, since he will have a mind exercised finely and flexible and alert, he will not be a secretive man.

He was too out-spoken, like all genius; whereas the world inculcates the high practical wisdom of a shut mouth and a secretive mind.

He was recalled later, as we shall see, but, meanwhile, I think you will agree with me that the facts testified to by him fully account, not only for the change in Jeffrey's habitshis solitary and secretive mode of lifebut also for the alteration in his handwriting.

In fact, they have actually started work at the other end, and though they are always very secretive about a thing like that, I happen to have a friend on the inside, so that my information is absolutely authentic.