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"Grandpapa," Diavolo resumed the Heavenly Twins never allowed the conversation to flag "Grandpapa, do you believe there ever was a little boy who never, never, told a lie?" "I hope, sir, you do not mean me to infer that you are mendacious?" the old gentleman sternly rejoined. "Mendacious?" Diavolo repeated; "that's do I tell lies, isn't it? Well, you see, sir, it's like this.
To the morality of a Western reader an account of these meetings would wear perhaps the sinister character of old legendary tales where the Enemy of Mankind is represented holding subtly mendacious dialogues with some tempted soul. It is not my part to protest.
You will believe it to the tiniest syllable, that wonderful lying message which April whispers to every living creature that is young, then you will return to me, a slim, star-eyed Maenad, and will see that I am wrinkled. But do you go your ways, none the less, for April is waiting for you yonder, beautiful, mendacious, splendid April. And I? Faith, April has no message for me, my dear."
Nobody was the wiser; nobody, the sufferer by the deception; so, what was "the odds" so long as they were correspondingly "happy" in their ignorance? My correspondent's letters were much more mendacious compositions.
For the former we are indebted to the illustrious Weems, and to that personage a few more words must be devoted. Weems has been held up to the present age in various ways, usually, it must be confessed, of an unflattering nature, and "mendacious" is the adjective most commonly applied to him.
They did their work, my true words; the false impression flowed out of them as smoothly as California claret from a French bottle. "I wonder who told you?" my victim remarked. "But it doesn't really matter. Everybody is bound to know it. You surely were the last person with him in the churchyard?" "Gracious!" I admitted again with splendidly mendacious veracity.
And as Dario had doubtless gone away and the figs would certainly not be eaten until the following morning, what reason was there for him to hurry? He would know that evening if the Congregation of the Council had annulled his marriage, he would know how far the so-called "Justice of God" was venal and mendacious!
For information on this subject, and others of the same kind, the American press is, of necessity, almost wholly dependent upon that of Europe; and if "mendacious rumors" respecting Austrian and Hungarian affairs have been anywhere propagated, that propagation of falsehoods has been most prolific on the European continent, and in countries immediately bordering on the Austrian empire.
"Yes; but he said you were to meet him there," continued Markham, glancing around the empty room with a slight expression of relief. "My watch was twenty minutes fast, and I had given him up," said Brimmer, with mendacious effrontery. "Miss Montgomery is dressing. You can bring him here before she returns."
At the heart of that huge whirlwind of his, with its dusty heraldries, and phantasmal nomenclatures now become mendacious, there lay, at first, always an earnest human fact.
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