love-secret

“A love-secret is a rose which embalms our hearts; if it is told, the rose loses its perfume.”

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II

“The delightful sensation of sharing a secret with her -- a love-secret known only to themselves.”

Three Weeks

“That your precious love-secret is known to my brother and me.”

The Squire An Original Comedy in Three Acts

“For, being no longer the crowned Servant of the State, he had the right as a mere dead man, to the possession of his love-secret.”

Temporal Power

“The first secret, especially if it be a love-secret, makes a break in that sweet, confidential intercourse between a parent and child which nothing restores.”

The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance

“Helena -- all the more because she felt sure that the girl had a love-secret -- and wished very much that Helena would take her into confidence.”

The Dictator

“She moaned with the moaning of love-sick youth * And exposed love-secret I ne'er would show:”

Arabian nights. English

“They are the witnesses of many a romantic adventure -- the necessary confidants of many a love-secret.”

The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West