" I smiled at the guilelessness of the boy who was making a confidant of a stranger.

It becomes thoroughly transparent to us; we find ourselves suddenly the confidants of virtue and vice, of greatness and insignificance, of nobility and depravityall this, and more, through the simplest means.

Although this man had been wily in making his revelations, and had chosen his confidant with caution and sagacity, most of that which he related was true.

Then, after a pause, "But how?" Then Mr. Bartley glanced at Bolton in the lobby, and not satisfied with speaking under his breath, drew this ill-chosen confidant to the other end of the office.

" "Nothing, I am sure," echoed the conscientious confidant; "but how will that assist your former scheme?" "Most admirably.

Did you not employ your confidant and secretary to learn the facts?

M. de Sommerive, however, who soon discovered that he was an object of espionnage, became so much exasperated that, having on one occasion encountered the royal confidant at a convenient moment for the purpose, he drew his sword and attacked him so vigorously that his intended victim was compelled to save himself by flight.

The mantle of her discontent fell on him, and, having no other confidant beside honest, stupid Sandy, he talked to him like a man who seriously thought of abandoning his labor, and retiring to that land across the sea for which his wife had pined during ten homesick years.

He removed from the council of thirty-six deputies such members as he could not rely upon, and introduced his own confidants.

I have chosen to speak to you, rather than to speak to your father, because I thought you might like a female confidant on such occasion, in preference even to your excellent natural protector.

Before the arrival of the messenger from Duke Charles, Max spoke little of the Burgundian princess; but the message gave her a touch of reality, and he began to open his heart to mehis only confidant.

Even the confidants sometimes need confidants in their turn, these being supplied by a conveniently ubiquitous chorus.

Mittler, however, knew very well that a heart that is occupied with love has an urgent necessity to express itselfto pour out to a friend what is passing within it; and he allowed himself, therefore, after a few speeches backward and forward, for this once to go out of his character and play the confidant in place of the mediator.

The valet and waiting-maid are placed near the persons of the master and mistress, receiving orders only from them, dressing them, accompanying them in all their journeys, the confidants and agents of their most unguarded moments, of their most secret habits, and of course subject to their commands,even to their caprices; they themselves being subject to erring judgment, aggravated by an imperfect education.

Nothing could be better managed than the whole affair; we each selected a confidant, sat for our pictures, interchanged them with a passionate note, and made a regular engagement for ever.

He had every opportunity of carrying out Pomeroy's suggestion to make Lord Almeric his confidant.

Why do I want a confidant?

"Hereupon he left the count, who consulted his confidants as to what he was to do in this business, and they counselled him to let them go and assemble their people, saying that they would kill Van Artevelde secretly or otherwise.

He even attempts, not very successfully, to disguise the confidant by giving her a personal interest, an effective share, in the drama.