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Mavis fibbed to Mr Poulter; she hoped that her consideration for his poverty would atone for the lie. For five weeks Mavis vainly tried to get work. She soon discovered how, when possible employers considered her application, the mere mention of her being at "Dawes'" was enough to spoil her chances of securing an engagement.
"It looks as though you did, Ed," Frank replied. "I'm really sorry." They got worse hell from a little doctor from Italy, whose name was Padetti. They were asked a lot of questions. They fibbed some, but not entirely. "We sort of blanked out, Doctor," Nance told him. "I suppose we spent most of our time in the desert, living in our Archers.
"With a sweep of his hand he indicated the camp. He had led her to the low stoop in front of the shanty. "Sit down on the steps, Moira, and we'll talk it over. I really called to see your father, but I guess I don't want to see him after all if he's sick." She looked at him bravely. "I didn't know you at first, Mr. Bryce. I fibbed. Father isn't sick. He's drunk."
Are you sure," she added, glancing from one to the other of the four eager faces suspiciously, "that I'm not putting you out? Because, if I am " "Why of course you're not," Betty fibbed stoutly, adding, with a swift change of subject: "But I'm sure now that you would like to rest. Look," she added, with quick solicitude, as she saw how white the old lady had become, "your hands are trembling "
Had she by any miserable chance read that verse! Intuitively she felt what was passing in his mind and demurely fibbed for his reassurance: "Mamma recovered it I think she said it was found at the gate and brought it to me. I knew it was yours from the memoranda on the first page, but forgot to return it before. I sincerely hope I have not caused you any inconvenience?"
It was on this account that we were anxious to conceal the fact of our having belonged to the Julia, though it annoyed me much, thus to deny the dashing little craft. For the same reason, also, the doctor fibbed about his birthplace. Unfortunately, one part of our raiment Arfretee's blue frocks we deemed a sort of collateral evidence against us.
Senter had fibbed. I went to dinner buoyed up by that hope, but it died young; for the Tyndals did invite me, in Sir Lionel's hearing; and when I said that I should be charmed he smiled calmly. So far from making objections, I thought he looked quite pleased. Poor me! I fancied in the castle ruins that he actually liked my society. But I forgot that I'd invited him to go with me.
People wondered who my husband was, and where he kept himself; some of the extremely curious had the hardihood to come here and question me. Was my husband dead? Of course not. Had I fibbed and told them he was, they would have asked when and where and the nature of the disease that carried him off. Was I divorced?
I thought it would be very 'propriate, for I am to speak a war piece, you know. Aunt Maria had this when she was a little girl, and she must be pretty much older than the war." "I meant that the silk was too good for common wear, dear," fibbed the teacher, seeing the sorrow in the thin, brown, wistful face.
It was enough for him that it was given up. He would have been even more proud and pleased, however, if he had known how frankly she confessed her real intentions. To do that seemed to Angela the only way. To have fibbed a little, or even to have prevaricated whitely, would have spoiled everything. "I find, dear Mrs. Harland," she said in her letter, "that I can't tear myself from San Francisco.
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