"What is the reason," he asked himself, "that the paradise before my eyes conceals so much misery?
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Though we had always presumed ourselves to be well acquainted with him, and all related to him, we now heard for the first time that he had been married to a woman he so highly esteemed, and yet whose existence he had concealed as one conceals a wrong.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
For your own sake I dare not draw aside the veil which conceals; for your own sake my lips are for the present sealed.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice