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I forget entirely what he wrote; how a man can make verses and dig rhymes out of his head has always been to me a puzzle. At the town inn, "The Lucky Fisherman," I saw, to my surprise, Jack on horseback, just arrived. He said he had a debt to collect for his father. It was no doubt true, for Jack could not tell even the mildest fib and not get rose-red.
To be sure, it involved entering on a course of deceit. Aunt Jane would, probably, be shocked, as she was at everything; mamma would not think much of it; and as for Mrs. Rolleston, she need not consider her wishes, after telling Bertie such a bare-faced fib about Jack Vavasour, evidently in the hope of making mischief between them.
'Oh, but he will come to The Knoll, I hope, at Christmas, and then you will think better of him. 'If he should come I I hope I shall not see him. 'Has he offended you so deeply? 'Don't let us talk about him, Bess. Tell me all about your Bournemouth triumphs. I hear you were the belle of the place. 'Then you have heard a most egregious fib.
While my left hand was employed in feeling the latch, I made such good use of my right, as to keep my antagonists at a safe distance. The one who was nearest to me, was Fib Fakescrew; he was armed with a weapon exactly similar to my own. The whole passage rung with oaths and threats. "Crash the cull down with him down with him, before he dubs the jigger.
"Oh, that is nothing; I had not time to make up my mind to tell the truth. I was taken by surprise; and you know one's first impulse is to fib about THAT." "But did you really deceive him?" "No, I blushed; and he caught me; so he said, 'Come, now, there was." "And you said, 'Yes, there is, like a brave girl as you are." "What, plump like that?
Her manner is open fair and free the traditional characteristic. We won't stop to canvass how that particular honesty of deportment that wins your approbation has been gained. In her college it is not uncommon. Girls, you know, are not like boys. At a certain age they can't be quite natural. It's a bad sign if they don't blush, and fib, and affect this and that. It wears off when they're women.
He took out his cigarette-case and turned away with a touch of embarrassment. She saw that for some reason he was moved. Impulsively she left Isabel and came to him. "Don't think any more about it!" she said. "I'll go to bed and be good." "You always are," said Scott, faintly smiling. "No, no, I'm not! What a fib! You know I'm not.
Tip him the degen, Fib, fake him through and through; if he pikes, we shall all be scragged." Hitherto, in the confusion I had not been able to recall Job's instructions in opening the latch; at last I remembered, and pressed, the screw the latch rose I opened the door; but not wide enough to scape through the aperture. The ruffians saw my escape at hand.
At Reynard the fox. At the rifle. At the squares. At trump. At the cows. At the prick and spare not. At the lottery. At the hundred. At the chance or mumchance. At the peeny. At three dice or maniest bleaks. At the unfortunate woman. At the tables. At the fib. At nivinivinack. At the pass ten. At the lurch. At one-and-thirty. At doublets or queen's game.
"'Jane, she again remarked as she was trying on her bonnet before the crooked glass, 'if ever I tell of this night, I think I will say that there was a trap-door in the kitchen: you know there might be one and we not see it. "'Oh yes, I answered as patiently as I could, 'I suppose a fib more or less will make but little difference in your lifetime.
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