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She prevaricated and contradicted herself over and over again; moreover, her state of terror alone sufficed to convict her of a crime. They handed her over to the law, and the Count de Saint-Geran filed an information before the vice-seneschal of Moulins. The midwife underwent a first interrogatory.
"For the present I shall maintain an attitude of masterly inactivity and avoid the night air." "But, surely," I exclaimed, "you will take some measures to protect yourself against attempts of this kind. You can hardly doubt now that your accident in the fog was really an attempted murder." "I never did doubt it, as a matter of fact, although I prevaricated at the time.
The whigs, on the other hand, affirmed that it was altogether a private quarrel; that Macartney was entirely innocent of the perfidy laid to his charge; that he afterwards submitted to a fair trial, at which colonel Hamilton prevaricated in giving his evidence, and was contradicted by the testimony of divers persons who saw the combat at a distance.
"Oh, do tell me the address," said Annie. "You had better let me get the ring out of pawn for you, miss." "No, no, I must get it to-day." "Have you got the money, Miss Forest?" "What would be the use of going if I hadn't?" prevaricated Annie. "Well, but you're not going to take my young ladies to a pawnbroker's?" "No, I promise not to take any of them; I'll go alone, quite alone.
For a minute or two you talked with him, and urged him to confess. Bit by bit, as you went on, he recovered his nerve, and began to bluster. He didn't deny what you said: he saw it was no use: he just sneered and prevaricated. "As I listened to his words, I saw he admitted it all. A great horror came over me. Then my life was one long lie! He was never my father. He had concocted a vile plot.
She could not remember that in her life she had ever spoken or written a lie in so many words, though, like most people who are not saints, she had prevaricated a little occasionally to save herself or others from some unpleasantness. In this case no innocent prevarication would serve. Even if she had been willing to lie, she could think of no excuse which would seem plausible.
"I have brought no gift for Mademoiselle de Renzie," I prevaricated boldly; but the man's knowledge of my name was ominous. If the Paris police had contrived to learn it already, as well as to find out that I was the bearer of something for Maxine, it looked as if they knew enough to play the game in their own way whatever that might be.
Some people indeed went so far as to say that the parchment was made from a sheep Tom had stolen, and that was why it prevaricated so in giving him a character. But I, knowing something by this time, of lawyers, was able to contradict them; affirming that the wolf had more than the sheep to do with this matter.
He lives, nobody knows how on bright, clean gold, nobody knows whence: his daughter says, indeed, that her father found a crock of gold in his garden but she needs not have held her tongue so long, and borne so many insults, if that were all the truth; and, mark this! even though she says it, and declares it on her Bible-oath, Acton himself most strenuously denied all such findings but went about with impudent tales of legacy, luck, nobody knows what; the man prevaricated continually, and got angry when asked about it cudgelling folks, and swearing like like any one but old-time "honest Roger."
For suppose Vicky should give me another commission or ask me to perform another errand in the house. "You have a transparent face, Mr. Calhoun," and Fleming Stone smiled quizzically. "Why do you want to keep the key?" "My aunt is most desirous of seeing this house," I deliberately prevaricated, "and I thought " But I didn't deceive the astute detective. "No, that isn't it," he said, quietly.
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