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Merrett, Barnacle, and Company, if you please," put in the clerk. "I beg your pardon," said I, "from Messrs. Merrett, Barnacle, and Company, telling me to be here at 10:15." "Oh. Why didn't you say that before? What's the use of prevaricating when it's just as easy to tell the truth straight out, eh? What's the time now?" "Twenty past," said I, looking at the clock. "And you call that punctual?
After assuring her that no one in town knew or should know from what source I got my information, I atoned for all the deception used, and for what prevaricating I had done, by handing her the gift of jewelry, which made her eyes fairly pop out of her head.
The Lord High Chancellor, looking down with a displeased and dubious expression, replied that he must acknowledge that Kohlhaas' presence was more necessary just then than ever, as the court, on account of the prevaricating and tricky tactics of the opposition, required his statements and explanations at a thousand points that could not be foreseen.
There could be no doubt of the necessity. If the child was described as adopted, there would be curiosity about the circumstances, and inquiries relating to the parents. Prevaricating replies lead to suspicion, and suspicion to discovery.
But now I threw away my rapier and snatched a club. I told her I would stand no more of this. Did she want to spoil my life and break my heart? She was the one thing I needed. Now she would have to say whether she'd put me off because she didn't love me and never could, or because of that trash about not wanting to involve me in her troubles. No use prevaricating!
Tonge's prevaricating answers and mysterious statements, into consideration, the king was now convinced the "Narrative of a Horrid Plot" was an invention of a fanatic or a rogue.
I began to move off toward the house. Duncan hurried after me and caught me by the arm. "You fool you, what do you mean?" he demanded. "I'm going to find out if you are telling the truth." "Isn't my word enough?" "It will do no harm to ask," I replied evasively, not caring to pick a quarrel, and yet morally sure that he was prevaricating. "So you think I'm telling you a falsehood?
What's that you're reading?" she asked, discovering a book on her daughter's lap, and a hasty action on her daughter's part, which looked like trying to hide it. Mrs. Norman made the most common, and where the object is to baffle curiosity the most useless of prevaricating replies. When her mother asked her what she was reading she answered: "Nothing." "Nothing!" Mrs.
Is what you're feeling beneficial to you good for you? 'Why, what am I feeling? I said, while in my heart I knew the doctor was right. 'Ah, young man, young man, the doctor went on with an intonation that suggested that something highly insulting to me was contained in these two words, 'what's the use of your prevaricating, when, thank God, what's in your heart is in your face, so far?
"Yes, you always said it was a mistake to bluff with soldiers so near the Reservation. I suppose the Indians resent their presence. Is that it?" "Mebbe." "There's another reason?" "Can't rightly say." Rosebud knew that the man was prevaricating. She stood lost in thought for some moments. And as she thought a sudden light came to her. She drew closer to her companion and laid one hand on his arm.
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