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Example sentences for "secret from"

  • A secret from me; and everybody else knows it!

  • He went spying about, and found her letters, I suppose,--and then he took fire because there was to be a secret from him.

  • I had no intention to keep anything a secret from you.

  • No, keep my secret from him, mother; do me a greater kindness than I deserve and keep my secret from my brother, of all men.

  • If that was the case, why should she be anxious to have her visit at Blackwater Park kept a secret from him?

  • If I had been driven to this country by the persecution of my government, I should not have kept those reasons a secret from you or from any one.

  • Then I put the question: "What would you think of me if I had a secret from an uncle like that?

  • Had I not deliberately promised--of my own will and at my own instance--never again to have a secret from him?

  • Lucie had no suspicion of the attraction that took Celia to the forest, nor that the simple-hearted girl could have a secret from her.

  • I never before had a secret from my dear old father, and he has a right to be angry that I have concealed from him what he ought to have known long ago.

  • It grieves me that he should have a secret from me, and sometimes it spoils my sleep, thinking of it, but I will put it out of my mind; it shall not trouble my happiness, which is otherwise full to overflowing.

  • She was keeping a secret from him, she was acting dishonorably toward him, and many a pang it was costing her.

  • This is a secret from my husband and family.

  • All my happy life I have never had a secret from my father; and now I am involved in a private engagement and a clandestine correspondence.

  • My soul, I will never have a secret from you, and you, I am sure, will never have one from your Henrietta.

  • I cannot mention it,' said Ferdinand; 'but there is no secret from you.

  • Nisida has no secret from me," observed the young count, firmly.

  • Yes; Nisida will consult my felicity alone; and when I ere now repeated her name as it fell from your lips, it was in a manner reproachful to myself, because I have retained my love for thee a secret from her.

  • You must be dying to know why Jimmy kept it a secret from us so long.

  • I had not dared to ask questions, for I believed I could guess why Jimmy had kept it a secret from us so long.

  • Jimmy kept his marriage a secret from us for a very Jimmyesque reason.

  • This time Blanche had no reason to complain that her uncle kept his correspondence a secret from her.

  • Keep the thing still a secret from Blanche.

  • You would never have kept the most interesting event in your life a secret from me--you would never have written me such a cold formal letter as the letter you left in your room--if there had not been something wrong.

  • I have the misfortune to think I owe this accident (I mean that it happened to-night) to my own folly in endeavouring to keep a secret from you.

  • Why will you ever attempt to keep a secret from me?

  • I am sorry you have kept a secret from me," he said.

  • You kept a secret from me," she said, and her eyes filled with heavy tears.

  • He had not meant to keep this fact a secret from her, but there was still a soreness over him when he thought of this young woman which prevented her name coming readily to his lips.

  • She said she knew I had a secret from her, and I owned that I had, but she said she would not try to guess, but would wait for the time for me to tell her.

  • When the day of the first raising came, and the frame slipped into the mortises so nicely, as I had foreordained that it should do, I was so happy that I could scarcely keep my secret from my mother.

  • He got into some other scrape, after that, which he has contrived to keep a secret from us.

  • What right have I to keep it a secret from him?

  • I promised my husband to keep it a secret from everybody," she said.

  • On the evening when he had been brought home with the wound in his head, he had entreated that his accident might be kept a secret from Mrs. Blyth (who knew his address), in case she should send after him.


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