This is a very liberal gift of yours; but your best plan will be to send it through your mother.

For, though I don't want to betray any confidence you place in me, I should not know what to answer if Mrs.Fairfield began to question me about her brother.

I never had but one secret to keep, and I hope I shall never have another.

A secret is very like a lie!" "You had a secret then ?" said Richard, as he took back the bank-note.

He had learned, perhaps in America, to be a very inquisitive man.