The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my
confession. I loved her.
The Woman in White
It was then that he sent for the Catholic priest, Father Peter Durban, and to him made confession. So important did it seem to the priest, that he had the confession taken down in writing and sworn to.
Even though the Pervaise confession had never come to light, no reasonable doubt could obtain; for the act in question, that sent fifty-two Congressmen to prison, was on a par with countless other acts committed by the oligarchs, and, before them, by the capitalists.
But, unlike Pervaise the confession of Romaines was made public in his own time.
The Iron Heel
There was the false hope of making the inevitable atonement by some other means than by the
confession of the fraud.
The New Magdalen
Emil Gluck's confession, six years later, cleared the unfortunate policeman of disgrace, and he is alive to-day and in good health, the recipient of a handsome pension from the city.
In his confession he spoke of it as a little experiment--he was merely trying his hand.
The great Boston fire was started by him--quite by accident, however, as he stated in his confession, adding that it was a pleasing accident and that he had never had any reason to regret it.
The Strength of the Strong
A squeaky voice screamed, "
Confession or no
confession, you are a police spy!"
Under Western Eyes
Dounia remembered her brother's telling her that her mother had overheard her talking in her sleep on the night after her interview with Svidrigailov and before the fatal day of the confession: had not she made out something from that?
Five months after Raskolnikov's confession, he was sentenced.
Crime And Punishment
There was no need for the old gentleman to make his little
confession. Women, children, and dogs proverbially know by instinct who the people are who really like them.
Law and the Lady
Such confessions as I intend to make are never printed nor given to other people to read.
He considers that Rousseau certainly told lies about himself in his confessions, and even intentionally lied, out of vanity.
Notes from the Underground
And assuredly, the secret man heareth many
confessions. For who will open himself, to a blab or a babbler?
The Essays