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She knew, but tender creature that she was, she was prepared to do anything short of fibbing to shield her pet from another out-burst. But John Allan, still absorbed in business cares, hardly looked toward the boy, and asked not a question. The home of the Allans was never quite the same to Edgar Poe after that night.
"If you didn't know what to do with me, Alice, then why did you ask me to come?" "But I didn't," Alice responded, too astonished to modify her denial into a polite form of fibbing. Ethers tone was gently superior. "Oh, yes; you did." "When?" "When you were leaving home. You said then that I must be sure to come up to spend a week with you, early in the winter." Then her accent changed.
I'm ready to walk the plank for my indifference if need be but I do want to come home with you for supper!" Mary did not answer for a moment. Then she said, in a quick breathless tone, as if she did not want to hear her own words: "I wonder if it would do any good to try explaining really explaining and not fibbing or pretending "
She sat silent, and the world lay like a sunlit valley at their feet. "Did you tell my cousin Ellen?" she asked presently, as if she spoke through a dream. He roused himself, and remembered that he had not done so. Some invincible repugnance to speak of such things to the strange foreign woman had checked the words on his lips. "No I hadn't the chance after all," he said, fibbing hastily. "Ah."
"Don't make it worse by fibbing! If that was so, how came the chair to tip the way it did? You were trying to peep over the door. Go to the kitchen!" Lucy went out with fallen plumes. Mr. Clamp took his hat to go also. "Don't go till I get you the notes," said Mrs. Kinloch. As she brought them, he said, "I will send these by the next mail, with instructions to collect."
The larger half of the population will no longer be unconstitutionally juggled, under cover of law, out of their right to take their secret ailments to a skilled physician of their own sex, and compelled to go, blushing, writhing, and, after all, concealing and fibbing, to a male physician; the picked few no longer robbed of their right to science, reputation, and Bread.
"I've got a message for you," he said. Her heart began to beat so violently that she was afraid he would hear it through the receiver at his ear. She could not trust herself to speak for a moment. Evidently he thought she was preparing to put him off with some polite excuse. Simmy was, as ever, considerate. He made haste to spare her the necessity for fibbing. "I can drop in late this afternoon—"
The chief peculiarity of this impostor is, that he really avoids direct pandering to vice and crime, and even makes it a specialty to cure drunkenness and of all things in the world lying! On this point Roback gives in full the certificate of Mrs. Abigail Morgan, whose daughter Amanda "was sorely given to fibbing, in so much that she would rather lie than speak the truth."
My boy distinctly remembered that under one of these trees his elder brother first broached to him that awful scheme of reform about fibbing, and applied to their own lives the moral of The Trippings of Tom Pepper; he remembered how a conviction of the righteousness of the scheme sank into his soul, and he could not withhold his consent.
The sergeant smiled incredulously, and asked: "You're not fibbing?" Zinaida shrugged her shoulders. She looked sternly at the man, and said in astonishment: "What are you saying? How is it possible to tell an untruth? And why should I tell you an untruth?" "How is one to tell?" growled the sergeant. "Once I begin to believe you there are lots of things you might say."
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