"Yes, sir," returned the child, looking up into his face with perfect confidence, "since father died."
Witches are supposed to have perfect confidence in their powers.
She could now look forward to giving him that full and perfect confidence which her disposition was most ready to welcome as a duty.
"No, we'll be together forever," he says with perfect confidence and, from her point of view, common sense.
One circuit of the room and she had perfect confidence in his leading.
He said it with perfect confidence, as if he were actually seeing the future.
"Because I have the most perfect confidence in you."
He must seem to have perfect confidence, to need no one and to be entirely sufficient unto himself.
"You may do so with perfect confidence, my lord," I answered.