He felt something like a secret joy at being forever relieved of this dangerous accomplice.

He closed his eyes, feeling a pang of inner, secret, silent joy.

Nor when she carried her complaint to him later, at the dinner-table, was he less affected with a secret joy.

Jane finally sat down on the front steps and gave herself up to a secret joy.

The secret joy that it wasn't you whose number was up.

Moravia didn't know whether to laugh in secret joy or at his own cupidity.

For a long time, for days, I never dreamed that it could be anything but a little secret joy.

From his lofty seat Grabko could literally look down on the lawyers- every judge's secret joy.

She would have say goodbye to passion and secret joy.

It was one of the great personal, private, secret joys that I had.