She felt suddenly that, though she might love him better, there were Privacies she could not discuss with Charles as with John.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Yours are the public acts of public men, But yours are not their household Privacies.
"The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson"
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The vulgar little street, in this view, offered scant relief from the vulgar little room; its main office was to suggest to her that the narrow black house-fronts, adjusted to a standard that would have been low even for backs, constituted quite the publicity implied by such Privacies.
"The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2"
Henry James