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We should ask ourselves whether in spite of all its confidentialness Trilby makes an intimate revelation.

From George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians by Wood, T. Martin

"Quite between ourselves, I'll be doing nothing of the sort," I said, with mock confidentialness.

From The Colonel of the Red Huzzars by Scott, John Reed

My companion went on playing with the pistol in front of him, and talking with the same rather creepy confidentialness.

From Manalive by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)