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I still remember with particular distinctness the slight dizziness that overcame me, the sinking feeling in my heart, the awe, and the foreboding that I had challenged a force in Nature which might defy all tireless effort and the most fearless heart. So the hostler had not been fibbing after all! But not for a moment did I think of turning back. I am fatalistic in temperament.
But if he should happen to inquire, I shall depend on you to preserve my incognito. You must even fib a little, if it is necessary." "Mercy on us! This romantic young philanthropist talks of fibbing, as if it were the most simple thing in life. No, Mademoiselle, we lawyers never fib. If we are ever obliged to forsake the narrow pathway of truth, we tell a square, honest lie.
Monsieur Benoit had actually been telling me what was not true. Was it, then, possible that grown-up people acquired the privilege of fibbing with impunity? I wondered whether this right would eventually become mine! At Bourg-la-Reine there is, or was, a large school.
Even if they both knew this to be a lovely rosy joke aide-de-camp of romance, which even the most practical American woman will not forgo Mary had been wise in telling him the truth. The only time women do at all well in fibbing is to each other. Besides, there is a vast difference between fibs and rosy jokes! Steve had earned this, therefore it would be his for all time.
"Oh, go ahead and say so tonight," jeered Dan. "Tomorrow, if you have the good luck to get sworn in, you'll have to quit fibbing and begin practicing at telling the truth. A midshipman at the Naval Academy, I understand, is kicked out of the service if he tells lies." "Not quite only in case he gets caught," laughed Dave Darrin. "But really, about being nervous "
Alice had such a feeling about truth, that he did not like to tell her even little lies, little ones that she could not possibly find out. It was the sentiment of fibbing to his girl that offended him, not the fib; for Mr. Lloyd Pryor had no doubt that, in certain matters, Truth must be governed by the law of benefit.
One lady said to another lady, 'How fashionable false hair is getting!" The False Hare stroked his whiskers to hide a pleased smile. "Bless me," said he, "I should think so! Keeps a fellow on the jump, I can tell you this social whirl. And then, when bedtime comes along and a chap ought to get a bit of rest after a day's hard fibbing, why then there's the dream business. I can't neglect that."
Hazlehurst came in?" said Adeline "no fibbing, mind." "I only received your note ten minutes since," replied Jane; "but I did think of going with you." "I should like to know why you hesitate, then. First come, first served. Now, the best thing you can do, Mr. Hazlehurst, is to change your mind, and ask one of the Miss Howards, and join our party, too. I really wish you would!"
I guess nobody but an adopted need to go trampin' past when we invite her to play with us! I guess we're good as she is an' better, too, so there!" Margaret in her hidden nook heard with a cold terror creeping over her and settling around her heart. It was so close now that she breathed with difficulty. If supposing they meant "Rhody Sharp, you're fibbing!
In the first place, she should have to marry some day, and when she made the bargain she meant it to be an honest one; and secondly, in the matter of love, she would never give herself to anyone she did not really care for, and if such happiness ever came to her she did not want it shorn of half its brightness by the need of fibbing and plotting and dodging.
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