While I admire you for this exhibition of trust in me, I have often wondered that your woman's curiosity did not covet the secret.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
'I never said it before, Tom,' she continued, evidently frightened at his wicked look, 'but I must say it now, for I cannot remember the hate you tried to teach me; I can only remember that a man capable of loving and being loved buried himself with a woman he could not tolerate, all from a sense of duty, and looked out at the merry world only to covet it.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
"If you but knew," he said pensively, "how little I covet that dignity: is not a king fettered by his duties?
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse