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"But when I got back with the pencil in my hand still, Belle come near getting me into trouble." "Uh-huh!" admitted Belle, nodding. "How?" asked somebody. "She just whispered right out loud, 'Lluella, that is your pencil and you know it! And I had to say right off, 'It isn't, and I didn't! Now, what could I have said else? But it was an awful fib, I s'pose." The assembled girls laughed.
I told him I would only be too glad to do so if it would aid him in the moment when life shrinks from the shadow of death, but told him I thought he would not die another little fib on my part. However, that did no harm, for I failed to convince him he would live. About 1 o'clock A. M. a couple of nights after this, one of the watchers came to my cot and said Bob wanted to see me immediately.
Didn't I fire into him, though, hot shot!" He fairly grinned at the recollection. "I had to, you know, to keep myself in countenance. I suppose I said rather more than I meant but don't you tell him so." She smiled. "I have told him so already; I told him you didn't mean a word you said." "You presumptuous baggage!" The doctor scowled now. "Then you told him a tremendous fib. I meant a deal of it.
If you had said or implied she was a lady, she would have shrunk as from a covert reflection on the quality of her work. Had she known certain of such as nowadays call themselves lady-helps, I could have understood her objection. I think, however, it came from a stern adherence to the factness if I may coin the word of things. She never called a lie a fib.
Standing with that tragic purple mask turned upwards to the silent sky, and the wild eyes blazing, and the great fist at the end of the uplifted arm brandished in the Face of Heaven itself, the Boer mother demanded of her Maker why this thing had been done? "He was so good. Never a fib since last I gave him the ox-reim end to taste.
That lying nimshi was jest goin on the sweetest, as respectful an nice a thankin your wife fer comin, an excusin himself fer sendin fer her, and sayin he couldn’t bear to tell her what he’d come fer, an pretty soon when she was scared ’s death he up an told her a awful fib bout you an a woman called Kate, whoever she is, an he jest poured the words out fast so she couldn’t speak, an he said things about you he shouldn’t uv, an you could see he was makin it up as he went along, an he said he had proof.
Or why should you make little Flora Buttercup tell such a huge fib as to say, that she believes in the resurrection of the body?" "It is taught her as a necessary lesson, and will be explained to her at the proper age." "No; there is no proper age for it. It will never be explained to her. Neither Flora nor her father will ever understand anything about it. But they will always believe it.
Alice felt sure that the thing to be told would have some reference to Mr Fitzgerald, and she did not wish to hear Mr Fitzgerald's name from her cousin's lips. "Tell you something; of course I am. I'm going to tell you that, that in writing to you the other day I wrote a fib. But it wasn't that I wished to deceive you; only I couldn't say it all in a letter." "Say all what?"
I have fought your battle, and won it. But I have had to make such promises to your father, and woe is me! to your mother, as will damn me forever if you do not help me to keep them. I can fib to your father and not care a snap, but lie to those blue eyes I cannot." "I will try, Aunt Gainor; indeed I will try." Indeed, I did mean to. "You must, you must.
"Why, Jem, I remember; that's when you had such a dreadful black eye." "That's right, my lad." "And pretended you fell down the ladder out of floor number six." "That's right again, Mas' Don," said Jem, grinning. "Then that was a lie?" "Well, I don't know 'bout it's being a lie, my lad. P'r'aps you might call it a kind of a sort of a fib." "Fib? It was an untruth."
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