Then it was that the major heard what others had earlier conjectured--that there had been clandestine meetings, whispered conferences and the like, within the first week of the lovely niece's coming to Fort Frayne.
He spoke English picked up about the agencies; had influential friends and, in some clandestine way, received occasional supplies of money that enabled him to take French leave when he felt like it.
I think much less of Aubrey that he should carry on a clandestinecorrespondence with a girl like you.
No more clandestine than your letters that come by the post with your own name upon them.
Bee had always been aware that as soon as it was known the matter must come to another crisis--and the scorn with which she regarded the idea of doing anything clandestine prevented her even from asking that her secret should be kept.
Besides it was rather funny to be accused of clandestine correspondence.
And let me tell you, a clandestine correspondence is something which I shall not tolerate.
This book did not appear in a clandestine manner, for it had: 1.
Soon, as was to be expected in such a country, this service proved the occasion of much scandal, and, instead of showing people how to leave the world, became the means of introducing many into life in a clandestine way.
The place selected for these clandestine meetings, was admirably calculated for the purpose, and presented a coup d'oeil singularly picturesque as well as imposing.
Lionel was too honourable to cherish an idea of clandestine love, and too good to make his parents miserable.
Perhaps she had seen me conceal the note, and imagined something clandestine and mysterious between me and her brother, that brother whose exclusive devotion had constituted the chief happiness of her life.
The fear of his discovering my clandestine meeting grew fainter and fainter as day after day passed, without a circumstance arising which would lead to detection.
And by clandestine Surreption, than by consent fraudulently obtained.
And the spoyling a man of his goods, by Terrour of death, or wounds, than by clandestine surreption.
No under-hand or clandestine friendship would he admit--no, not even for my sake.
But what seemed most likely was, that he was with them to prevent a clandestine marriage by his bare presence, without making a scene and shocking Josephine's pride: and if so, was he there by his own impulse?
I see everything is against me, even my love: for that love is too much akin to veneration to propose to you a clandestine marriage.
One who marries others in a clandestine and disorderly manner, S.
Signor Malipizzo dismissed as untenable the hypothesis of a clandestine withdrawal from local creditors.
No wonder the statue had created wild excitement among the few, the very few, discreet amateurs who had been permitted to inspect the relic prior to its clandestine departure from the country.
There was a period in particular during which this pastime enjoyed, indeed quite revelled in, the form of our dragging to the light, with every circumstance of derision, the fact of his clandestineand deeply moved perusal of G.
I don't know how it is with better men, but the parental sentiment is so fiendish a thing with me that if anyone attempt to slay my young, especially in a clandestine way, or out of a pious regard (e.
Ernest returned home in high spirits, which sank by degrees, however, when he reflected that as Alfonso declined favoring any clandestine correspondence, there was little in reality to be expected from him.
He had first learned the value of it in many a clandestine game of poker, which he had condescended to play of a Saturday afternoon in a corner of the deserted composing-room.
It must be some very secret matter to require a clandestine meeting.
After herclandestine marriage she had confronted her husband's parents, and the result was not satisfactory.
At the top of a knoll in a clandestine group of trees they found "Viewcrest Inn.
She understood this very well, and in all docility and obedience lent herself to the deception, accepting without complaint a mean and clandestine existence.
Her name and Charles's stood indelibly written in the registers; and though a month only had passed as yet it was a wonder that his clandestine union with her had not already been discovered by his friends.
Now, whether the lewd woman is of the clandestine type or a professional in the house of ill-fame, it does not matter.
Discovery of her clandestine visit to Underwood's apartment that fatal night must come.
Annie had promised that if there was any way possible the knowledge of that clandestine midnight visit to Underwood's rooms should be kept from him.
I might have spared myself the humiliation of this clandestine interview.
Our clandestine meetings were so skilfully arranged as to keep the ever-grumbling Hertzen in entire ignorance, and Vera admitted such expeditions were her happiest hours.
I know enough of the world to distinguish the meaning of such clandestine meetings," I replied, sickened at the manner she was endeavouring to clear herself.
Thus smothered, its fragrance stifled, it seemed emblematic, somehow, of the clandestine nature of her love.
