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"I hope it isn't a whale," said Sweetclover. "It had better not be," said Kernel Cob, "if he knows what's good for him," and he patted his sword in a very brave manner. "It's getting bigger and bigger," said Sweetclover. "Don't you see it?" "Sure!" said Kernel Cob, "I saw it all the time, it's a ship." And like all people who tell fibs he was found out, for it wasn't a ship at all.
"I esteem Adolphe: for, after some few fibs, he frankly confessed his position, and, without humiliating himself too deeply, he promised that I should be happy. He hopes, like numerous other ordinary men, to obtain some place, that of an assistant librarian, for instance, or the pecuniary management of a newspaper. Who knows but we may get him elected deputy for Viviers, in the course of time?
Maybe your mother died when you were very young?" "When I was a week young," I said, and suddenly I felt myself choked up. "That explains the telling of fibs, you see, and saying you don't mind though I'm sure you do, when you stop to think of it; because the sort of girl who can be a good pal to a man just can't tell fibs, any more than the man can if he's worth being a pal to."
"I didn't say a word to you," said Harry. "I'm afraid you're tellin' fibs. I heerd you." "It was the professor. He put the words in my mouth." "Well, come to think on't the voice was different from yours. Then there wa'n't nobody in the trunk?" "No, ma'am," said Harry, smiling. "It's wonderful, I declare for't. This is my darter, Mrs. Nehemiah Babcock," continued the old lady.
To represent oneself as a dressmaker well, there was nothing very outrageous in that; it was unbecoming, but venial, to tell sundry fibs by way of supporting the assumed character the Manual was equal to that; but the rest of the disclosure was the crux. Wrong, no doubt, was the conduct but how wrong? That made all the difference. And then there followed another question: What ought to be done?
These sentiments, and others equally unfashionable, were only breathed into the ear of sister Matilda when the two retired to the Campagna to confide to one another the secrets of their souls a process necessary about once a week; for after visiting studios, going to parties, and telling polite fibs about everything they saw, it was impossible to exist without finding a vent of some sort.
"Fortunately, her brother had a headache yesterday and was lying down," he told Grizel, with calm brutality, "so I saw her alone for a few minutes." "The fibs I have to invent," said Tommy, to the same confidante, "to get myself out of their way!" "Luckily he does not care for music," David said, "so when she is at the piano he sometimes remains in the kitchen talking to Aaron."
"I'm afraid you tell fibs sometimes," said Aunt Deborah, but she said it very graciously, and surveyed her nephew very kindly. "Heigh ho! it's a good while since your poor father and I were children together, and went to the school-house on the hill. Now he's gone, and I'm left alone." "Not alone, aunt. If he is dead, you have got a nephew."
"I told them you were a dude," said she. "Did you, indeed! Girls who lead the singing in Sunday-school are not telling many very particular fibs this morning, are they? But you shall own up before night." O Vesty! the call of the "whistlers" down in the meadow by the sea-wall "love! love! love!" No other note; it is that, too, breathing in the swift Bails and bounding the sea! "And why not wife?"
He did not, as he would have done at home, cross-examine her; he accepted everything as it came pouring out, about her fibs and all, and when she had finished and said, "You have every right to be angry, I think, but I hope you won't be and will forgive me instead," he merely asked, "What can be more beneficial than such a holiday?"
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