Yet hold! even there, there is some need of caution.
This same female chaplain--thou sayest so little of her, and so much of every one else, that it excites some doubt in my mind.

VERY PRETTY she is, it seems--and that is all thy discretion informs me of.

There are cases in which silence implies other things than consent.

Wert thou ashamed or afraid, Darsie, to trust thyself with the praises of the very pretty grace-sayer ?--As I live, thou blushest! Why, do I not know thee an inveterate squire of dames?
and have I not been in thy confidence?
An elegant elbow, displayed when the rest of the figure was muffled in a cardinal, or a neat well-turned ankle and instep, seen by chance as its owner tripped up the Old Assembly Close, [Of old this almost deserted alley formed the most common access betwixt the High Street and the southern suburbs.] turned thy brain for eight days.

Thou wert once caught if I remember rightly, with a single glance of a single matchless eye, which, when the fair owner withdrew her veil, proved to be single in the literal sense of the word.