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I could not imagine you telling an untruth, not even in making love!" and she laughed, "Though there are many of your sex who think any amount of lies permissible under similar circumstances! And it is just because I have found men such practised liars, that I have the reputation of being heartless. Did you ever think me heartless?" Aubrey hesitated a moment.
He is one of those rare people who can really throw their whole selves into a cause lose themselves for it and not care. Anyhow, Arthur's passion for truth, his passion for the first-rate, and his distaste for untruth and for the second-rate, seemed to be the supreme motive forces in him, all the years I have known him, until just lately.
She knew there was untruth in what she was saying for no one, not even God, would ever take care of Peter again in life. His still little face and the terrible grief in her own heart told her that. For Peter's back was broken, and he was going going even now as she ran moaningly with him through the deep aisles of the forest.
Literally speaking, it cuts both ways. The excuse becomes a threat and the untruth savours of blackmail. Healthy minds work by single or treble propositions.
Why should I lie to him? A Sagamore speaks the truth." Which was true in a measure, at least as far as wanton or idle lying is concerned, or cowardly lying either, But he had lied to me concerning his knowledge of the strange maid, Lois, which kind of untruth all Indians consider more civil than a direct refusal to answer a question.
Now that is just what they will not get in Clifden or elsewhere in the neighbourhood. Almost everybody is as fearfully deliberate in action as in untruth, and the Saxon who expects instant attention and a straightforward answer, and is apt to storm at procrastinators and shufflers, appears to the poor native as an imperious tyrant. Now the native is always as civil as he is deceptive.
Jeeves," I said, "cannot suspect a fellow-townsman, whose character is as high as mine, of untruth and theft. And to whom else have you communicated the facts connected with a memoir and a request of so extraordinary a nature?" "To young Margrave; I told you so!" "True, true. We need not go farther to find the thief. Margrave has been in this house more than once.
The matter may be trifling, but the fact that he is helping you to keep secrets will teach him to value his word and will increase his confidence in you. On the other hand, if you tell him an untruth, do not think that he will come to you again. No, he will doubtless go to some friend who he thinks will tell him, and thus get his young mind tainted with impure thoughts.
"You must let me put this round you," and I pulled off the plaid and would have placed it on her shoulders, but she resisted. "I am not in the least cold," she answered frigidly which is the only untruth I ever heard her tell "and you shall not say 'must' to me," and she took her hand from my arm. She spoke with a tremor that warned me not to insist. Then I knew why she had shivered.
Phyllis's blue eyes contracted, and her lip curled. "Please send her out of the room, Miss Davis," she said. "Hetty, I am sorry for this," said Miss Davis, "I could not have believed you would speak so rudely." "You have not heard the story, Miss Davis." "I have heard you put yourself very much in the wrong. Phyllis would not tell an untruth of you, I am sure."
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