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I could only tell him that it was in the nature of Raffles to be self-willed and secretive, but that no man of my acquaintance had half his audacity and determination; that I for my part would trust him through and through, and let him gang his own gait every time.

This arose because of his following a practice the opposite to the above; for the emperor is a secretive man--he does not communicate his designs to any one, nor does he receive opinions on them.

Under the influence of this feeling Sonya, whose life of dependence had taught her involuntarily to be secretive, having answered the countess in vague general terms, avoided talking with her and resolved to wait till she should see Nicholas, not in order to set him free but on the contrary at that meeting to bind him to her forever.

They don't know a thing about business 'n' never did, and Mirandy's too secretive and contrairy to ask advice."

Dear man, he is very earnest, but very slow, and very averse to anything at all secretive. I am sure the reflection that he is a member of a secret society, even although it is simply a linking together of the aristocracy of Europe in their own defence, has kept him awake for many a night."

Her actions when thus engaged were furtive and secretive, like those of some nocturnal animal.

Hamilton Fynes," he remarked, "seems to have been what you might call a secretive sort of person.

He had supposed her to be asleep, and the sound of her voice had startled him, though she was given to abrupt explosions of speech after long intervals of secretive silence.

As a soldier, he loathed all this secretive carnage; where were these extravagant amputations going to stop?

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

He has had the reputation of being a man of eccentric habits, secretive and retiring.

y s I e t I b t th She's secretive about the texts, which she says is because she knew I'd get mad if I saw her texting him.