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True, the interesting question of how far necessary fibs are justifiable among children, is yet to be considered; but what did we know of such necessity in our sports in the Thiergarten?
Do you mean for to go for to tell us that the relations between young gentlemen and their schoolmasters are entirely frank and cordial; that the lad is familiar with the man who can have him flogged; never shirks his exercise; never gets other boys to do his verses; never does other boys' verses; never breaks bounds; never tells fibs I mean the fibs permitted by scholastic honor?
To-day, Fibs, I want you to interview that Mrs, Desternay. You can do it better than I, jolly her along, and find out if she's fried or foe of Mrs, Embury." "Yessir. An' kin I do a little sleuthin' on my own?" "What sort?" "Legitermit I do assure you, sir."
"Yes, and has written 'paragraphs' about them that no doubt seemed quite as lurid as the events themselves, suggesting that I gloated over disasters as so much material." "Mr. Morton, isn't it nearly as bad to tell fibs about one's self as about other people?" "My depravity will be a continuous revelation to you, Miss Warren," I replied.
But she only said: "Maisie": said it twice, as for the pleasure in the name. Then she held out her hand, to take the letter from the doctor. He handed it to her. "I have been telling fibs, Mrs. Marrable," said he, "or using them, which is the same thing, in trying to tell you this. You will forgive that, I know?" She nodded assent. "Shall I tell you the facts, as far as they are known to me?"
A person of my strict morality hardly knows how to look you in the face. Perhaps you had rather I didn't try. Very well. Now tell me all about it, comfortably. I have a guess, you know. 'What is it? 'Wait a little. I don't want to be laughed at. Is it any one I know? 'You have never seen him, and I dare say never heard of him. Beatrice stared incredulously. 'I wouldn't tell fibs, Nancy.
Beaufort coloured very much at the remark and the question, and, forcing a smile, said, "You are severe. But you don't know what it is to be father to a young man." "Then a great many young women have told me sad fibs! But you are right in your sense of the phrase. No, I never had an heir apparent, thank Heaven!
"I was just wondering," she said, ignoring this banality for which in my heart I thanked her "if there are weeds that show embarrassment for people who tell fibs?" Now there was no possible way for her to have learned my name! "You don't think there was any fibbing when I said you were a sure-'nough princess, do you?" "Oh, please, let's not talk of that again," she entreated.
Hudson rose with a soft, vague sound of distress, and stood looking at him shrinkingly and waveringly, as if she were sorely tempted to retreat through the open window. Mr. Striker swung his long leg a trifle defiantly. No one, evidently, was used to offering hollow welcomes or telling polite fibs. Rowland introduced himself; he had come, he might say, upon business. "Yes," said Mrs.
"Oh, yes," replied Mrs. Meadows. "It is for girls as well as boys. Sometimes people tell stories just to pass the time away, and if the stories have little fibs in 'em, that don't do anybody any harm, they just keep them in there. If they didn't, the story wouldn't be true." "Is that the end of the story of the Talking-Saddle?" asked Buster John. "No! Oh, no!" Mr. Thimblefinger answered.
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