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  • Well, according to the law, this 'unnamed person' is under no obligation to divulge his secret information, which—if it's what I think it is—is not all that secret anyway.†   (source)
  • He forbade his wife to divulge anything to her family, which eventually meant not seeing them, as her clothing and the children's clothing fell to rags.†   (source)
  • Now swear on your heart that the data you are about to receive will be divulged to no one.†   (source)
  • Trying to make it divulge its purpose to me.†   (source)
  • I have no intention of divulging the names of the other stockholders to you, Mr. Torrance.†   (source)
  • The moment her existence was divulged, he knew that shouts, accusations, and fear would be directed at him …. so he procrastinated.†   (source)
  • Since she refused to divulge details about herself or her past, and because my stepfather was largely unavailable to deal with questions about himself or Ma, what I learned of Mommy's past I learned from my siblings.†   (source)
  • He would never have divulged the contents of another captain's log to any but the relevant officers and authorities.†   (source)
  • GaoLing paused and pursed her lips, as if she had already divulged too much.†   (source)
  • No one knows whether I divulged all the information, everything I knew.†   (source)
  • Its leading companies will not divulge the precise formulas of flavor compounds or the identities of clients.†   (source)
  • Jane would only have to imply some unfortunate tragedy, too delicate a matter to divulge—and really, was that such a lie?†   (source)
  • And even though the Witch of Endor was speaking to Scathach, Sophie could hear her voice in her head, talking to her, whispering ancient secrets, murmuring archaic spells, divulging a lifetime of knowledge in the space of heartbeats and breaths.†   (source)
  • OK, Stevens, so you don't wish to divulge past confidences.†   (source)
  • On the sly, Mack called up Willie and, while trying rather unsuccessfully to not divulge too much information, asked if he could borrow his friend's four-wheel drive Jeep.†   (source)
  • In the temperate zone where there is a season known as "fall" during which one expects marigolds to be at their peak, in the months before the beginning of U.S. participation in World War II, something grim is about to be divulged.†   (source)
  • But apparently, all you had to do was check a little box saying you didn't want to divulge your identity, and suddenly it took a good reason and a court order to get anywhere.†   (source)
  • I don't tend to divulge my soul to people I've only known two weeks."†   (source)
  • We won't use their real names, and as long as we don't take credit for writing it or divulge where it might be from, I'm sure there wouldn't be a problem.†   (source)
  • Brown divulged what he was learning at the weekly Klan meetings: the identities of the Klan's local and regional leaders; their upcoming plans; the Klan's current rituals, passwords, and language.†   (source)
  • "I'm afraid we cannot divulge any of the secrets of our Order," Felicity says, giving me a furtive glance.†   (source)
  • My fifth brother even accused me of making it all up, but still I was not going to divulge my sacred find.†   (source)
  • I never divulge information so freely, especially to people I barely know.†   (source)
  • They were on a mission whose secrets were too vital to be divulged under Japanese torture.†   (source)
  • Maybe something in her personal effects, an address book, an e-mail in her computer, would divulge who her San Francisco lover was.†   (source)
  • The little pink, green, and blue papers were so clever that they always divulged the exact secret wishes of the customers.†   (source)
  • He was disappointed, but not inclined to believe Yossarian, for he had been given a sign, a secret, enigmatic vision that he still lacked the boldness to divulge.†   (source)
  • He trusted Henry …. or rather, he had, before he'd mistakenly thought Kylie had insinuated that Henry had divulged his deepest darkest secret.†   (source)
  • To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret.†   (source)
  • "A religion different from the religion of the Lunas," I was again talking to myself, intrigued by the easy flow of thoughts and the openness with which I divulged them to my father.†   (source)
  • He knew she was discreet and would not divulge their rendezvous.†   (source)
  • He glanced at Hema, as if the two of them were trying to decide how much to divulge to us.†   (source)
  • "You weren't required to divulge all of your witnesses and describe what they were going to say, no sir.†   (source)
  • "With all respect, Chief Simpson, I can't divulge to the public any details of the case that could undermine the investigation."†   (source)
  • What was said between them, neither divulged.†   (source)
  • The santeras had made eight cuts on her tongue with a razor blade so that the god could speak, but Felicia could not divulge his words.†   (source)
  • No one had given Cersei such a lovely gift since Sansa Stark had run to her to divulge Lord Eddard's plans.†   (source)
  • I finally decided to divulge the single overriding thought in my head.†   (source)
  • He divulged how David destroyed the Enemy's ships through the observatory dome and how he'd tricked Prusias by swapping Connor's soul.†   (source)
  • It is reserved for those who break the code of silence or loyalty demanded by the assassin, or others who have refused to divulge information.†   (source)
  • Double jeopardy prevented Billy from being tried again, and the rules about client confidentiality meant I couldn't divulge his dirty little secret anyway.†   (source)
  • Diamond kept up an animated chatter the whole way, yet absolutely refused to divulge where they were going.†   (source)
  • She could not divulge secrets to foreign governments.†   (source)
  • The dissenting group, it's my privilege and headache to divulge, consists of the three featured players themselves, two female, one male.†   (source)
  • Nothing you'd care to divulge, huh.†   (source)
  • His bitterness was so great I knew I would be thought a spy for the whites if I divulged my identity.†   (source)
  • It should be made plain, now—however—although the fact will surely be revealed as this account goes on—that Sophie was able to divulge things to me which she could never in her life tell Nathan.†   (source)
  • Here she sighed loudly as if what she had to tell me was too painful to be divulged.†   (source)
  • With no leadership, the group falls into chaos and divulges other information.   (source)
    divulges = makes known (secret of private information)
  • He thought about which things he could divulge and which things he couldn't.   (source)
    divulge = (of secret information) make known
  • He was told that he'd be given medical care only if he divulged military secrets.   (source)
    divulged = made known (secret information)
  • Under the weight of my wicked secret, I pondered whether the Church would be powerful enough to shield me from the vengeance of the terrible young man, if I divulged to that establishment.   (source)
    divulged = made known (sensitive information)
  • Crake divulged few factoids about himself.†   (source)
  • She teased me with her reluctance to divulge all, begging my curiosity.†   (source)
  • Whatever her own thoughts on the matter were, she did not divulge them.†   (source)
  • You knew nothing concrete that you could have divulged, no intermediary who pointed to Washington.†   (source)
  • "Why would the Imp divulge such plans to his wife's maid?"†   (source)
  • The only thing I don't divulge is the truth about Mother killing little Carolina.†   (source)
  • Each sailor reached inside his vest and divulged a weighted club and several lengths of rope.†   (source)
  • He strained to divulge his conversation with Astaroth, but the words would not form in his brain.†   (source)
  • I suspected her of divulging the secrets of my magic.†   (source)
  • Deign to divulge?†   (source)
  • It will be your job to persuade Professor Slughorn to divulge the real memory, which will undoubtedly be our most crucial piece of information of all.†   (source)
  • When I said I wished to leave my situation, Mrs. Alderman Parkinson did not protest, but instead had me into the library and asked very earnestly once more if I knew the man; and when I said I did not, she asked me to swear on the Bible that even if I did, I would never divulge it, and she would write me a good reference.†   (source)
  • There was a murmur of agreement, and for a moment all present seemed to be considering whether or not it would be proper to divulge to me the tale concerning this local personage.†   (source)
  • My father had taken to greeting Harold every time they met with a Bob Wills—like falsetto "Ah-hanh!" but the real bone of contention was not that Harold had pulled ahead of my father in the machinery competition, but that he hadn't divulged how he'd financed the purchase, whether cold, out of savings and last year's profits (in which case, he was doing better than my father thought, and better than my father), or by going to the bank.†   (source)
  • He kept his voice as pleasant as he could, and Scrimgeour's tone, too, was light and friendly as he said, "Oh, of course, if it's a question of confidences, I wouldn't want you to divulge …. no, no … and in any case, does it really matter whether you are 'the Chosen One' or not?"†   (source)
  • I never divulged anything that I later regretted, but I do remember thinking that some of my fellow co-workers seemed jealous that I was successfully forging ahead not only professionally, but personally as well.†   (source)
  • Miss McCleethy listens to it all without divulging anything about herself or her whereabouts these past three months.†   (source)
  • I'm considering learning magic myself, if I have the talent for it, and if I can convince some magic users to divulge their knowledge.†   (source)
  • Resuming his tale, Eragon told of how he, Saphira, and Glaedr had entered the Vault of Souls, though he refrained from divulging that this had required their true names.†   (source)
  • Jennifer Romanello had also called twice with updates; she'd finally been able to find the private investigator who had been snooping into Julie's past, and after the usual grousing that he couldn't ethically divulge who'd hired him, he'd knuckled under.†   (source)
  • "In order to protect the credibility of the investigation, I'm not at liberty to divulge the method."†   (source)
  • You know I can't divulge that."†   (source)
  • Jake had filed interrogatories requiring his adversaries to divulge the identities of all potential witnesses.†   (source)
  • It meant that Jalal had no secrets to divulge, that the network, at least for the moment, was dormant.†   (source)
  • Eragon stared at the royal-blue gemstone set in his ring, wondering how much more information his oath and his honor would allow him to divulge, then said, "Know this, though: we are not so alone as we once assumed."†   (source)
  • You announce to the court that an important witness has passed away and that the investigation has revealed some things you can't divulge, but those things convince you that the plea agreement best serves the interests of justice.†   (source)
  • My oaths forbid me to divulge ….†   (source)
  • He had not known all of the minutiae and thus had not been able to divulge every detail to the Demon.†   (source)
  • I was not required to put him on the list or in any way divulge his name because I was never certain he would be called.†   (source)
  • These techniques are so potent and dangerous, they were never shared with novice Riders such as yourself, but circumstances demand that I divulge them and trust that you won't abuse them.†   (source)
  • There was a hush, as though the crowd was expecting the announcer to divulge the gladiator's exploits and history and perhaps inform the wagering.†   (source)
  • You will now divulge to me the details of the spoken rites and the garb to be worn by yourself and your attendants.†   (source)
  • Until Walpurgisnacht has passed, you are forbidden to divulge any aspect of this visit or our conversation.†   (source)
  • When the interrogation was over and the demon had spoken the secret words and divulged the dress and manners of the ceremony, David made a sign and she collapsed within the circle.†   (source)
  • As much as I felt the need to unburden myself to someone, I found it impossible to divulge anything about this recent upheaval in my life.†   (source)
  • Although he had told me in large (though generally impenetrable) detail about the technical nature of his research (enzymes, ion transference, permeable membranes, etc., also the fetus of that miserable rabbit), he had never divulged to me—nor had I out of reticence asked—anything concerning the ultimate justification for this complex and, beyond doubt, profoundly challenging biological enterprise.†   (source)
  • Well, Your Honor, I shall disappoint him, for I shall divulge the motive.†   (source)
  • He would never divulge what happened during that interview, but he refused to go back again.†   (source)
  • But I had had all my life to watch him in, since apparently and for what reason Heaven has not seen fit to divulge, my life was destined to end on an afternoon in April forty-three years ago, since anyone who even had as little to call living as I had had up to that time would not call what I have had since, living.†   (source)
  • He had a secret within a secret, something he had not divulged, even to Bassett or to his Uncle Oscar.†   (source)
  • He should have seen that he was bound just as tightly by that small square of still undivulging paper as though it were a lock and chain.†   (source)
  • His father had struck him before last night but never before had he paused afterward to explain why; it was as if the blow and the following calm, outrageous voice still rang, repercussed, divulging nothing to him save the terrible handicap of being young, the light weight of his few years, just heavy enough to prevent his soaring free of the world as it seemed to be ordered but not heavy enough to keep him footed solid in it, to resist it and try to change the course of its events.†   (source)
  • I talked to Ross for hours, explaining what I was about, cautioning him not to relate anything that he did not want to divulge.†   (source)
  • Friendship was something he suddenly discovered and had to give away as a recognition of and payment for the breathlessly opening world which momently divulged itself like a moonflower.†   (source)
  • It's one of those professional secrets that I shouldn't divulge, but I don't know what it is about you that makes me want to be honest.†   (source)
  • Maybe she went up there to be alone, absorbed in herself the way a child is absorbed in watching a cocoon gradually part in the dusk to divulge the beautiful moth—the Luna moth again, with its delicate green and silver damp and crumpled but gradually spreading in the dusk, denning itself, slowly fanning the air to make a breeze so light that you would not be able to feel it on your eyeball were you to lean that close to peer.†   (source)
  • Died January 23, 1863 and the other: Thomas Sutpen, Colonel, 23rd Mississippi Infantry C.S.A. Died August 12, 1869: this last, the date, added later, crudely with a chisel, who even dead did not divulge where and when he had been born.†   (source)
  • His reason may have been because of some delicacy for his father-in-law, the true reason for and beginning of the relationship between whom and himself neither the aunt nor Ellen nor Miss Rosa ever knew, which Sutpen was to divulge to but one man—and that under the pledge of confidence as long as Mr Goldfield lived—out of regard for Mr Coldfield's carefully nurtured name for immaculate morality—and which, your grandfather said, Mr Coldfield himself never divulged for the same reason.†   (source)
  • …among the youths, the children, with whom he now lived; this man miscast for the time and knowing it, accepting it for a reason obviously good enough to cause him to endure it and apparently too serious or at least too private to be divulged to what acquaintances he now possessed: —this man who later showed the same indolence, almost uninterest, the same detachment when the uproar about that engagement which, so far as Jefferson knew, never formally existed, which Bon himself…†   (source)
  • His reason may have been because of some delicacy for his father-in-law, the true reason for and beginning of the relationship between whom and himself neither the aunt nor Ellen nor Miss Rosa ever knew, which Sutpen was to divulge to but one man—and that under the pledge of confidence as long as Mr Goldfield lived—out of regard for Mr Coldfield's carefully nurtured name for immaculate morality—and which, your grandfather said, Mr Coldfield himself never divulged for the same reason.†   (source)
  • She divulged the fact that she was attired in some half dozen skirts.†   (source)
  • Only to bishops and above did she divulge her clerical romance.†   (source)
  • A blow had fallen upon her, the nature of which only time could divulge.†   (source)
  • And Hans Castorp divulged his sad, but for all that, spiffing news.†   (source)
  • Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.†   (source)
  • Some of the subtlest secrets of the seas seemed divulged to us in this enchanted pond.†   (source)
  • Without divulging his secret, Dantes could not give sufficiently clear instructions to an agent.†   (source)
  • But I have had my plans, too; it is time I should begin to divulge them.†   (source)
  • Should he divulge Fix's real errand to his master?†   (source)
  • He never spoke of himself, and in a conversation with Miss Norton divulged the pleasing fact.†   (source)
  • All Villefort's influence barely enabled him to stifle the secret Dantes had so nearly divulged.†   (source)
  • He was not Raymie; he was Major Wutherspoon; and Kennicott and Carol were grateful when he divulged that Paris wasn't half as pretty as Minneapolis, that all of the American soldiers had been distinguished by their morality when on leave.†   (source)
  • For looking as she did now, so distrait— If only he could get her to say that she had been deserted by some young man, whose name she would refuse to divulge, of course, well, what physician seeing a girl like her alone and in such a state—no one to look after her—would refuse her?†   (source)
  • She did not divulge its contents either to her daughters or the general, but her conduct towards the former became affectionate in the extreme.†   (source)
  • We must not forget that the managers had an idea at the back of their minds, all the time, that this strange incident might be an unpleasant practical joke on the part of their predecessors and that it would not do to divulge it prematurely.†   (source)
  • The point, that he had eaten cucumber for supper, was divulged in the last line and was greeted with laughter, a little forced because everyone knew the poem well, but loud and long.†   (source)
  • And therefore, while by no means sympathizing with the more cruel and drastic phases of Clyde's attempt at escape—as so far charged (never in all the years of his law practice had he been able to grasp the psychology of a murderer) still because of the rumored existence and love influence of a rich girl whose name had not as yet been divulged he was inclined to suspect that Clyde had been emotionally betrayed or bewitched.†   (source)
  • Doctor Dangeu was a young Génevois; for a moment he was afraid that he was going to lose a profitable patient, but, when Dick reassured him, he divulged the fact that Mr. Warren was indeed dying.†   (source)
  • Clifford's countenance glowed, as he divulged this theory; a youthful character shone out from within, converting the wrinkles and pallid duskiness of age into an almost transparent mask.†   (source)
  • If that document were divulged, a whole army of geologists would be ready to rush into the footsteps of Arne Saknussemm.†   (source)
  • Yet here I hardly know whether I should divulge one little item of rumor, which came to my ear a few months after the scrivener's decease.†   (source)
  • …to resist the proceedings taken on the other side for the recovery of the youth as slowly and artfully as possible, and meanwhile to beset Snawley (with whom it was clear the main falsehood must rest); to lead him, if possible, into contradictory and conflicting statements; to harass him by all available means; and so to practise on his fears, and regard for his own safety, as to induce him to divulge the whole scheme, and to give up his employer and whomsoever else he could implicate.†   (source)
  • I have thought that Walden Pond would be a good place for business, not solely on account of the railroad and the ice trade; it offers advantages which it may not be good policy to divulge; it is a good port and a good foundation.†   (source)
  • Gold and silver coin, precious paper, secrets that if divulged would bring vague destruction upon vague persons (generally, however, people whom she disliked), were the chief items in her ideal catalogue thereof.†   (source)
  • There were times, indeed, when I thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage.†   (source)
  • Lord Steyne, laughing, promised he never would divulge their conversation, and when he and Miss Briggs parted he laughed still more.†   (source)
  • Chapter XVII SHOWING WHAT HAPPENED ON THE VOYAGE FROM SINGAPORE TO HONG KONG The detective and Passepartout met often on deck after this interview, though Fix was reserved, and did not attempt to induce his companion to divulge any more facts concerning Mr. Fogg.†   (source)
  • Unwittingly here a secret has been divulged, which perhaps might more properly, in set way, have been disclosed before.†   (source)
  • So much of the epistle as was divulged in that manner, we shall lay before the reader, accompanied by the passing remarks of the sheriff: " 'London, February 12, 1793.'†   (source)
  • The dark object of the conspiracy into which the chiefs of the Osborne family had entered, was quite ignorant of all their plans regarding her (which, strange to say, her friend and chaperon did not divulge), and, taking all the young ladies' flattery for genuine sentiment, and being, as we have before had occasion to show, of a very warm and impetuous nature, responded to their affection with quite a tropical ardour.†   (source)
  • The secret, so long as it should continue such, kept them within the circle of a spell, a solitude in the midst of men, a remoteness as entire as that of an island in mid-ocean; once divulged, the ocean would flow betwixt them, standing on its widely sundered shores.†   (source)
  • For as the secrets of the currents in the seas have never yet been divulged, even to the most erudite research; so the hidden ways of the Sperm Whale when beneath the surface remain, in great part, unaccountable to his pursuers; and from time to time have originated the most curious and contradictory speculations regarding them, especially concerning the mystic modes whereby, after sounding to a great depth, he transports himself with such vast swiftness to the most widely distant…†   (source)
  • He thought that the time had not yet arrived to divulge to his master what had taken place between the detective and himself; and, in the account he gave of his absence, he simply excused himself for having been overtaken by drunkenness, in smoking opium at a tavern in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Monte Cristo in an indifferent tone, "you will do as you please, count, for you are the master of your own actions, and are the person most concerned in the matter, but if I were you, I would not divulge a word of these adventures.†   (source)
  • I should have feared to injure both Edmond and yourself, had I divulged my own apprehensions to a soul.†   (source)
  • …on the outside of a white door and knock at it: and not at all for mere shelter but so that that boy, that whatever nameless stranger, could shut that door himself forever behind him on all that he had ever known, and look ahead along the still undivulged light rays in which his descendants who might not even ever hear his (the boy's) name, waited to be born without even having to know that they had once been riven forever free from brutehood just as his own (Sutpen's) children were—"†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undivulged means not and reverses the meaning of divulged. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • It were in vain longer to conceal from you, Tony, that between myself and one of the members of a swan-like aristocracy whom I now hold in my hand, there has been undivulged communication and association.†   (source)
  • Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipp'd of justice: hide thee, thou bloody hand; Thou perjur'd, and thou simular man of virtue That art incestuous: caitiff, to pieces shake That under covert and convenient seeming Hast practis'd on man's life: close pent-up guilts, Rive your concealing continents, and cry These dreadful summoners grace.†   (source)
  • By getting me to talk so much, Rachel was eventually going to get me to divulge sensitive information that would ultimately lead to my downfall.†   (source)
  • 'My dear youngnephew', it says, 'You will be glad to learn that I am now in a position to avail myself of an opportunity regarding which,for reasons which I shall make obvious to you, I shall not gointo details until I have an opportunity to divulge it to you in a more secure manner.†   (source)
  • And knowing your Mother's delicate health and that timorousness which such delicately nurtured Southern ladies would naturally feel regardingmatters of business, and their charming proneness to divulge unwittingly such matters in conversation, I would suggest that you do notmention it to her at all.†   (source)
  • Charms and invocations of the most blessed abbot Peter Salanka to all true believers divulged.†   (source)
  • What public advertisement would divulge the occultation of the departed?†   (source)
  • Were there no means still remaining to him to achieve the rejuvenation which these reminiscences divulged to a younger companion rendered the more desirable?†   (source)
  • To Master Percy Apjohn at High School in 1880 he had divulged his disbelief in the tenets of the Irish (protestant) church (to which his father Rudolf Virag (later Rudolph Bloom) had been converted from the Israelitic faith and communion in 1865 by the Society for promoting Christianity among the jews) subsequently abjured by him in favour of Roman catholicism at the epoch of and with a view to his matrimony in 1888.†   (source)
  • And then the usual denouement after the fun had gone on fast and furious he got 1190 landed into hot water and had to be spirited away by a few friends, after a strong hint to a blind horse from John Mallon of Lower Castle Yard, so as not to be made amenable under section two of the criminal law amendment act, certain names of those subpoenaed being handed in but not divulged for reasons which will occur to anyone with a pick of brains.†   (source)
  • Tax of impudence,— A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame,— Traduc'd by odious ballads; my maiden's name Sear'd otherwise; ne worse of worst extended, With vilest torture let my life be ended.†   (source)
  • She insisted how it might tend to a further divulging the secret, and might in the end be injurious to him, entreating him not to press for it; so at length he desisted.†   (source)
  • But so much was our love We would not understand what was most fit; But, like the owner of a foul disease, To keep it from divulging, let it feed Even on the pith of life.†   (source)
  • But if the sense of touch, whereby mankind Is propagated, seem such dear delight Beyond all other; think the same vouchsafed To cattle and each beast; which would not be To them made common and divulged, if aught Therein enjoyed were worthy to subdue The soul of man, or passion in him move.†   (source)
  • Your lord does know my mind; I cannot love him: Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble, Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth; In voices well divulged, free, learn'd, and valiant, And, in dimension and the shape of nature, A gracious person: but yet I cannot love him; He might have took his answer long ago.†   (source)
  • In that part which treateth of a Christian Common-wealth, there are some new Doctrines, which, it may be, in a State where the contrary were already fully determined, were a fault for a Subject without leave to divulge, as being an usurpation of the place of a Teacher.†   (source)
  • Well; I will take him, then torture my wife, pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page, divulge Page himself for a secure and wilful Actaeon; and to these violent proceedings all my neighbours shall cry aim.†   (source)
  • Upon this, Jones began to beg earnestly to be let into this secret, and faithfully promised not to divulge it.†   (source)
  • I believe it is a true observation, that few secrets are divulged to one person only; but certainly, it would be next to a miracle that a fact of this kind should be known to a whole parish, and not transpire any farther.†   (source)
  • …his wonderous works, and learn His seasons, hours, or days, or months, or years: This to attain, whether Heaven move or Earth, Imports not, if thou reckon right; the rest From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire; or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabrick of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter; when they come…†   (source)
  • For the reasons mentioned in the preceding chapter, and from some other matrimonial concessions, well known to most husbands, and which, like the secrets of freemasonry, should be divulged to none who are not members of that honourable fraternity, Mrs Partridge was pretty well satisfied that she had condemned her husband without cause, and endeavoured by acts of kindness to make him amends for her false suspicion.†   (source)
  • Jones was so delighted with this news, that, though it was dark when they returned home, he could not help going back a mile, in a shower of rain, to acquaint the poor woman with the glad tidings; but, like other hasty divulgers of news, he only brought on himself the trouble of contradicting it: for the ill fortune of Black George made use of the very opportunity of his friend's absence to overturn all again.†   (source)
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