He is a native of New Brunswick, Alexander McDonald by name, and has spent some years mining in other places, but was very reticent about what he had made or found.

"Once and for all, will you own up where you were on the night of the murder?" Hill started slightly, then, with admirable self-command, he recovered himself and became as tight-lipped and reticent as ever.

"A gentleman would be a little reserved and reticent in matters which he does not understand.

Obviously Crabbe himself had been reticent on the subject even with his own family.

The Countess Guiccioli, Lady Blessington, and others, assure us that in society few would have observed the defect if he had not referred to it; but it was never far from the mind, and therefore never far from the mouth, of the least reticent of men.

It found Marty a trifle less shy and reticent than when he came to Cartwright, and J.W., Jr., a shade more studious.

He is a trifle condescending, to be sure; he does not forget the difference in our stations, but he does not permit himself to study me with eyes of blank indifference, nor is he reticent to the verge of hostility.

There is, however, no need to be so reticent with the reader.

" It was a sweet letter, I thought, even if it carried little comfort; quiet and reticent like its writer, but with an undertone of sincere affection.

CHAPTER III Ailsa and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Craig, had been unusually reticent over their embroidery that early afternoon, seated together in the front room, which was now flooded with sunshinean attractive, intimate room, restful and pretty in spite of the unlovely Victorian walnut furniture.