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She claimed it had been going on for some months; checks had been cashed at the bank; even her servants had been approached by some one so closely resembling her as to deceive them; and she had been reported at various places she never visited. She was very much exercised over it." "And she engaged you just to find this other woman?"
Your Majesty will see in this overture my sincere desire to contribute efficaciously, for the second time, to a general pacification, by an advance frankly made and free of those formalities which, necessary perhaps to disguise the dependence of feeble states, only disclose in powerful nations a mutual desire to deceive.
"Ah, you cannot deceive me in that way, my son. I know something is wrong, and " "Yes, something is wrong," he interrupted with bitter vehemence. "I have been spat upon by a girl, and never until now did I realize what a fool I was to think of losing my heart to a flirt like Rose Alstine." "August, what do you mean?" "That Rose has jilted me." "I am glad of it." "Mother!"
Callender, I fear, can not be persuaded to go." "You want me for chaperon," interposed Mrs. Gouverneur. "What a clever scheme! How could you dare to set such a trap for an old friend?" "It will prove a clever scheme if it succeeds. But it wasn't clever enough to deceive you." "Well, you and Phillida together have won. Of course I can not refuse if Phillida consents."
We are not to suppose, however, that these things were done at the time, with an intent to deceive; but after the events, whatever they were, had passed away, and the imagination had been long in operation respecting the traditions concerning them, they are dressed up with all the appearance of real history; and might so be construed and believed, were it not for improbability.
They will make a fortune, and I believe that Durnovo knows where it is growing in quantities." "I cannot see how it would pay him to deceive us in the matter. That is the best way of looking at it," murmured Jack reflectively. "When I first met him, the man thought he was dying, and for the time I really believe that he was honest. Some men are honest when they feel unwell.
Mother and daughter took charge of the family linen, and spent their days so conscientiously upon a labor properly that of working-women, that if Eugenie wished to embroider a collar for her mother she was forced to take the time from sleep, and deceive her father to obtain the necessary light.
"Two young men-both Greeks, if the dress does not deceive one is at your right hand, the other at your left. The former is fair-haired; the glance of his eyes is deep and constant. It is he, I think But no! His image is fading, and you are turning your back upon him. You do it intentionally. No, no, you two are not destined for each other.
This story was made up by his neighbours not because they were fanciful or wanted to deceive, but like most tittle-tattle to fill a gap, as few like to confess ignorance, and if people are asked about such or such a man they must have something to say, or they suffer in everybody's opinion, are set down as dull or "out of the swim."
Do I think that the particular form of lying often seen in newspapers, under the title, "From our Foreign Correspondent," does any harm? Why, no, I don't know that it does. I suppose it doesn't really deceive people any more than the "Arabian Nights" or "Gulliver's Travels" do.
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