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Alfred found his eye wandering round the table surveying the wives of his friends. Was there one of them, he wondered, who had never fibbed to her husband, or eaten a simple luncheon unchaperoned by him? Of one thing he was certain, there was not one of them so attractive as Zoie.
"You 'd have been welcome to the whole job. As it is, I've done them so carelessly that I know mommy will scold me. But I wasn't going to work myself to death for him!" "I should have loved I like shirt-making," fibbed Tabitha. "And I hate it! Forty-two have I made this year, and mommy has six more cut out." There was a moment's silence, and then Tabitha said, "Janice."
"I knows I fibs dreadful: but believe me, Miss, I never finds out I have fibbed until they tells me so," was a remark actually made. It is also one of much more extended application than most people have the least idea of.
That Sir Raffle fibbed first, was no valid excuse whatever for Eames. "I've been at it ever since six o'clock," said Sir Raffle. "At what?" said Johnny. "Work, to be sure; and very hard work too. I believe the Chancellor of the Exchequer thinks that he can call upon me to any extent that he pleases; just any extent that he pleases.
And I may tell you at once that he's as tough as ever, and as great a fool. The fellow is totally unworthy of you, so don't you worry your head about him any longer." He bent over her confidentially. "Supposing some one were to cut him out, eh?" "Some one " she stammered. "Who?" "Guess!" he smiled. She did guess; and it was a shocking surmise. "I I have no idea," she fibbed.
Morgan. I shook my head. 'Nothing, I said sadly, 'that I can put my finger on. But I hope to discover a few later. The sun may bring them out. 'Like freckles. Well, you are a lucky woman. Mine had plenty, I assure you. Untidiness was no name for Jessie, and Mary I'm SORRY to say that Mary sometimes fibbed. 'How lovable of her!
I've just been urging him to stay and have luncheon with us. Do help me persuade him." "Of course I remember Mr. Kramer," fibbed the matron cordially, all unaware of her daughter's duplicity. "Do stay, Mr. Kramer, and have luncheon with Jane. I ordered luncheon for four, expecting to be home, and now I've been called away, but your aunt is there to chaperone you.
"What was she telephoning you about?" Mostyn asked, listlessly. "You." "Me?" "Yes; she asked for you." "And you didn't call me?" He was studying the designing face apathetically. "No, I fibbed out and out. I told her you were not here yet, but that I expected you to lunch every minute. Then, as sweetly as you please, I offered to deliver the message.
"The kind to whom you say, 'Now mind you look me up'; and then spend the rest of your life dodging-like our good Hickses," Strefford amplified. The Hickses but, of course, Nick was with the Hickses! It went through Susy like a knife, and the dinner she had so lightly fibbed became a hateful truth.
"Not long, only the third month." "And how old are you?" "Sixteen," fibbed Little Manka, taking five years off her age. "O, such a young one!" the German wondered, and began, bending down and grunting, to take off his boots. "Then how did you get here?" "Well, a certain officer deprived me of my innocence there...near his birthplace. And it's terrible how strict my mamma is.
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