In the secrecy of Jack's tent, however, the subject was freely discussed.

"I suppose cousin Jack has a meaning to his melodrama," said Eve, as they entered the forest, "and I dare say, dearest father, that you are behind the scenes, though I perceive determined secrecy in your face.

The extraordinary efficiency, speed, and secrecy with which the expedition was organized, shipped across the Mediterranean, and landed in Africa, the discipline, moral, and gallantry which both soldiers and sailors displayed, were a revelation to everybody and gave the Italians new confidence in their military forces, and made them feel that they could hold up their heads before all the world unashamed.

" He wrote the letter, addressed it, his hand elaborately curved in secrecy about the envelope, pocketed it.

And Hamlet related the particulars of the conversation which had passed to none but his dear friend Horatio; and he enjoined both to him and Marcellus the strictest secrecy as to what they had seen that night.

The psychological effects of secrecy on those who are kept in ignorance are not difficult to analyze.

The arguments, which could be urged on the ground of the practical necessity of a small group dealing with the questions and determining the settlements, seem insufficient to justify the application of the rule of secrecy to the delegates who sat in the Conference on the Preliminaries of Peace.

The remaining pontoons were therefore constructed, and preparations commenced in the greatest secrecy for the whole operation.

Crewe's reply was that he had obtained these articles under a promise of secrecy from some one who had assured him that Mrs. Holymead had no connection with the crime.

I suspect that their controlling reason was their indisposition to break their self-imposed rule of secrecy by contact with the outer world until their work was completed.

The point to consider is how to break down this secretbe the secrecy over so unconsciousconspiracy to uphold official iniquity.

Thus began that series of foolish infidelities that, characterised by extreme timidity and secrecy at first, was latterly flaunted in the face of the world.

My father will be so rejoiced at your departure, that he will be off his guard, and then I can easily conduct you with secrecy into the castle.

It's all prepared for the pay-a-purs," Linda whispered with exaggerated secrecy behind her hand.

He is the companion of Cle'ofas, whom he carries through the air, and shows him the inside of houses, where they see what is being done in private or secrecy without being seen.

The European Masons are far more liberal in their views of the obligation of secrecy than the English or the American.

They, too, were in anguish because the enemy had come so close to Paris in pursuit of a little army which seemed to have been wiped out behind the screen of secrecy through which only vague and awful rumours came.

The climax of this policy of secrecy toward the body of delegates came on the eve of the delivery of the Treaty of Peace to the German representatives who were awaiting that event at Versailles.

He further explained, as before, his reasons for secrecy towards his travelling companion, and entreated his father not to suppose for a moment that Mr. Fellowes had been in any way culpable for what he could never have suspected; warmly affectionate messages to mother and sister followed, and an assurance of feeling that 'the little one' needed for no care or affection while with them.

She could never write to me as she has done, urging patience and secrecy until my return.

These trials were carried out with great secrecy against a model of the sea wall built at the Headquarters of the Tank Corps in France, and were quite successful.

He held that secrecy between himself and the contributors to the Quarterly was absolutely necessary.