At the same time, he would naturally feel loyalty towards the officials who were working on the same case, and he would not
conceal from them anything which would help them in bringing a criminal to justice.
All Lothario's good sense seems to have failed him at this juncture; all his prudent maxims escaped his memory; for without once reflecting rationally, and without more ado, in his impatience and in the blindness of the jealous rage that gnawed his heart, and dying to revenge himself upon Camilla, who had done him no wrong, before Anselmo had risen he hastened to him and said to him, "Know, Anselmo, that for several days past I have been struggling with myself, striving to withhold from thee what it is no longer possible or right that I should
conceal from thee.
The subject had reference to secret sin, and those sad mysteries which we hide from our nearest and dearest, and would fain
conceal from our own consciousness, even forgetting that the Omniscient can detect them.
I could not
conceal from her--I must not
conceal from you--that the vital energies are sinking.