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Her cry to him: 'If you had been wiser, this would not have been! will sink to the inward meditation: 'If he had been truer! and though she does not necessarily think him untrue for charging him with it, there is already a loosening of the bonds where the accusation has begun.
Then there was a simultaneous outbreak of 'Well? 'All right! said Mr. Edmonstone. 'Every word was untrue. He is the noblest fellow in the world, as I knew all the time, and I was an old fool for listening to a pack of stories against him. 'Hurrah! cried Charles, drumming on the back of his sofa. 'Let us hear how the truth came out, and what it was. 'It was that Dixon.
When the other still kept silent, Gale insisted: "Didn't you?" At this Stark flamed up defiantly. "Well, I guess I had cause enough. No woman except her was ever untrue to me wife or sweetheart." "You didn't really think ?" "Think hell! I thought so then, and I think so now. She denied it, but " "And you knew her so well, too.
Such a war loomed terribly large before the minds of them all. They know it to be fraught with the saddest consequences. It was so regarded in the mind of that Senator. But the braggadocio could not be omitted. Had be omitted it, he would have been untrue to his constituency.
"What matter, so long as we go together?" she answered in a gay voice that yet seemed to ring untrue, "although," she added, with a little choke of the throat, "I would that we could have stayed here until I had found and buried my father. It haunts me to think of him lying somewhere in the snows like a perished ox."
Pietro di Abano, who took his name from his birthplace, a village near Padua, was a physician contemporary with Dante, whose skill in medicine and astrology caused him to be accused of magic. It is nevertheless untrue that he was burned by the Inquisition or stoned by the populace; but after his death he was burned in effigy, his remains having been secretly removed by his friends.
Such men as are deceived by false accounts of the fate of Britain at the entry into the Dark Ages, take for granted many other things historically untrue. Their presumptions confuse or conceal much else that is historical truth: for instance, the character of the Normans; and even contemporary and momentous truth before our eyes today: for instance, the gulf between Englishmen and Prussians.
Half-an-hour ago the grievances, the self-pity, the dissatisfaction had appeared to him to be real and tangible troubles; not indeed things which it was wise to brood over, but inevitable pains, to be borne with such philosophy as was attainable. But now they seemed as unreal, as untrue, as painful dreams, from which one wakes with a sharp and great relief.
The old man drooped his head for a moment in a reflecting attitude, and then, raising it, he laughed before he answered: That I handled the man a little rough or so, is not to be denied; but that there was occasion to make use of all the things that the gentleman has spoken of is downright untrue.
I do not for the present attempt to prove to Haeckel that materialism is untrue, any more than I attempted to prove to the man who thought he was Christ that he was labouring under an error. I merely remark here on the fact that both cases have the same kind of completeness and the same kind of incompleteness.