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Very few parents ever really get acquainted with their offspring. Parents who fail to keep their promises with their children, and who prevaricate to them, have children that are secretive and sly.
"Now, I want only the truth you understand these rivers could any white man take a canoe down there and through the pool safely?" and Lawrence, who dare not prevaricate with that gaze upon him, answered reluctantly, "I do not think so." The Colonel's thin face twitched. "I thank you. No other possible landing place or foothold, is there?
Eve shrugged her shoulders defiantly, ironically. "You prevaricate; you won't, you can't be candid! There is only one other man who can tell me the truth you make it necessary, I must go to him." Lightmark clenched his hand viciously upon the handle of the door.
On the other hand, having laid down the principle of popular sovereignty he deduces from this, "the sacred right of constituents to dismiss their delegates;" to seize them by the throat if they prevaricate, to keep them in the right path by fear, and wring their necks should they attempt to vote wrong or govern badly. Now, they are always subject to this temptation.
I would have told him if Kate had not been there; but it was impossible, and I had to prevaricate. This morning has brought no news; the suspense is horrible. Heaven help Kate! I can write no more. Your affectionate sister, Grace Danton Quebec, May 17. Dear Lauderdale: The deed is done, the game is up, the play is played out Reginald Reinecourt Stanford is a married man.
She had but one grief, and tears came to her eyes when she spoke of her brother Valentin, who perhaps would not live through the week. She had had news of him the day before; he was past hope. And the doctor was obliged to prevaricate a little to console her, for he himself expected hourly the inevitable termination.
If you would save your miserable neck, tell me what you have done with this damned aristocrat." "He is gone," answered La Boulaye quietly. "Don't prevaricate, Caron! Don't seek to befool me, Citizen-deputy. You have him in hiding somewhere. You can have supplied him with no papers, and a man may not travel out of France without them in these times. Tell me where is he?"
Then came more of those ideas that self-flagellated her flaccid mental skin throughout the week: if something bad were to happen to him she might not know about it or have the vocabulary to ask about it; if she were aware of it that she might not be able to explain it; and if she could explain it she might prevaricate or become twisted in mendacities since she would not know how to explain her connection to this Sangfroid family.
"But he married you before he died?" the father cried, in a tone of profound emotion. "He did justice to his child? he repaired his evil?" "He did not," Herminia answered, in a scarcely audible voice. "He was stanch to the end to his lifelong principles." "Why not?" the father asked, staggering. "Did he see my telegram?" "Yes," Herminia answered, numb with grief, yet too proud to prevaricate.
If this were not enough, he has furnished you with other presumptions that are not to be shaken. It is one of the known indications of guilt to stagger and prevaricate in a story, and to vary in the motives that are assigned to conduct. Try these ministers by this rule. In the first place, he rejects the authority of the Nabob of Arcot.
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