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And the air seeming to give her strength and a clearer perception, she says, presently: "Accommodation!" "That's it, my dear," says I, cheerfully. "Hush up the past," continues she, in the same calculating tone; "conceal it from the world, if possible. Invent some new lie to deceive the curious, and hoodwink our decent friends.
O Reginald, how is your judgment enslaved! He scarcely dares even allow her to be handsome, and when I speak of her beauty, replies only that her eyes have no brilliancy! Sometimes he is sure she is deficient in understanding, and at others that her temper only is in fault. In short, when a person is always to deceive, it is impossible to be consistent.
I will give you a happy, brilliant, and beautiful existence; I will lay at your feet all the pleasures, enjoyments, and charms of this world " "Sir," interrupted Eliza, hastily, jumping up, and fixing her eyes upon him with a strange, ardent expression, "I hope I understand you right, and my ears do not deceive me? You offer me your hand? You want to marry me and make me your wife?"
She would gladly do all in her power to satisfy the claim, and so she formed the resolve which seemed to her to possess an atoning power no longer to deceive the worthy man who loved her so loyally, and for whom she felt an affection.
The house will be well rid of him, for a more idle, good-for-nothing reprobate never crossed its threshold." "Is this true, Sir?" cried Mrs. Sheppard, with an agonized look at Wood. "I know you'll not deceive me. Is Jack what Mrs. Wood represents him?" "He's not exactly what I could desire him to be, Joan," replied the carpenter, reluctantly, "But a ragged colt sometimes makes the best horse.
In the private and doleful dialogues between Bodman and Grafigni which we have just been overhearing, these intriguers spoke the truth, for they could have no wish to deceive each other, and no fear of eaves-droppers not to be born till centuries afterwards.
There is a vague feeling in his mind that he would like to see you confirm your suspicion without the aid of an open confession and the result is a "lie." Indeed, any approach that arouses antagonisms is almost sure to bring out the propensity to dissimulate or even to deceive.
"But I left no traces behind me, for I came here disguised," said Porthos. "Ah! You came disguised did you?" said D'Artagnan. "Yes." "And how?" "As a miller." "And do you think a great noble, like you, Porthos, can affect common manners so as to deceive people?" "Well, I swear to you, my friend, that I played my part so well that everybody was deceived."
If there is anything in the world which gives us a sweet, ineffable impression, of the ideal, it is this trembling modest love. To deceive it would be a crime. Merely to watch its unfolding life is bliss to the beholder; he sees in it the birth of a divine marvel.
There was nothing wrong, surely, in one fellow going and having supper with another fellow now and then! How easy the process, when one wishes to deceive oneself! But two days after Smith had gone home I received a letter which somewhat upset my calculations.
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