furtivenesses

Updated: May 14, 2025

I was relieved now, and could say all my say without any furtivenesses and without embarrassment. So I began: "Let us put sentiment and patriotic illusions aside, and look at the facts in the face. What do they say? They speak as plainly as the figures in a merchant's account-book.

Mark Twain - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1