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All right just you wait and Hanlon goes around on a motor-cycle, too!" "He does! Then we are undone! What a revelation! And, now, Fibs, if you'll explain to me the significance of Hanlon's aspiring ambitions and his weird taste for motor-cycles, I'll be obliged." Fibsy was extremely, even absurdly, sensitive to irony.
Of course they're just fibs," said mother. "So there!" we cried, in triumph. But Will had a "so there" answer for us a few nights later. We were coming home late one evening, and found the gate guarded by mad-looking yellow things, all afire, and grinning hideously like real live men in the moon dropped down from the sky.
"How many great troubles are included in this petty one! You men are a vulgar set. There is not a woman who does not carry her delicacy so far as to embroider her past life with the most delightful fibs, while you but I have had my revenge." "Madame," I say, "you are giving this young lady too much information." "True," she returns, "I will tell you the sequel some other time."
"But I don't believe," mused Stone, "that it would help us any to learn all those women know. If Miss Van Allen thought they could help us find her, she would give them more than that for silence or get them out of the city altogether." "Where is Miss Van Allen, Mr. Stone?" Fibsy asked the question casually, as one expectant of an answer. "She's in the city, Fibs, living as somebody else."
"That I'm a pert minx or something. That's what he called me or a pert piece. It's all the same thing. And I am it. I don't mind telling fibs. I've told lots." "You poor little thing!" exclaimed Captain March in a pitying tone, but with the kind of pity the proudest person wouldn't resent, because it really came from his heart. "You seem to have had to fight your own battles.
One or two small incidents have in the meantime shown us that there is a little rift in the idyllic happiness of Inga and Gar, arising from her inveterate habit of telling trifling fibs to avoid facing the petty annoyances of life.
And, besides, these fellows are answerable for provoking people into fibs: for I remember one day, that reading a statement of this nature, about how many things the Earth had done that we could never hope to do, and about the number of cannon balls, harnessed as a tandem, which the Earth would fly past, without leaving time to say, How are you off for soap? in vexation of heart I could not help exclaiming 'That's nothing: I've done a great deal more myself; though, when one turns it in one's mind, you know there must be some inaccuracy there.
"How many great troubles are included in this petty one! You men are a vulgar set. There is not a woman who does not carry her delicacy so far as to embroider her past life with the most delightful fibs, while you but I have had my revenge." "Madame," I say, "you are giving this young lady too much information." "True," she returns, "I will tell you the sequel some other time."
The circumstances with which she is principally concerned the suspicions, the accusations, the anonymous letters, the intrigues, the endless problems as to whether Madame d'Epinay was jealous of Madame d'Houdetot, whether Thérèse told fibs, whether, on the 14th of the month, Grimm was grossly impertinent, and whether, on the 15th, Rousseau was outrageously rude, whether Rousseau revealed a secret to Diderot, which Diderot revealed to Saint-Lambert, and whether, if Diderot revealed it, he believed that Rousseau had revealed it before these circumstances form, as Lord Morley says, 'a tale of labyrinthine nightmares, and Mrs.
"Many fibs, excuses of a delinquent debtor," she answered smilingly, thus giving him to understand how sweet to her those fibs were. "Be quiet now and I'll read it to you. I'll leave out your fine phrases in order not to make a martyr of you."
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