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"Of course somebody asked you to drop in here so very accidentally: come now, who was it?" "I'm God Almighty's witness dropped from the clouds, I cal'late." "Come, sir, no prevarication. How came you here just at the nick of time?" "Counsellor, when I'm treated polite, I'm ile; but rile me, and I'm thunder stuffed with pison: don't you raise my dander, and I'll tell you.
"You think yourself funny, don't you?" said Rattray, stung from his dignity by this last. "It's only a rat or something under the floor. We're going to have it up to-morrow." "Don't try to shuffle it off on a poor dumb animal, and dead, too. I loathe prevarication. 'Pon my soul, Rattray " "Hold on. The Hartoffles never said 'Pon my soul' in all his little life," said Beetle critically.
With much prevarication, and much insolence too, he confesses himself guilty of falsifying the Company's accounts by making himself their creditor when he was their debtor, and giving false accounts of this false transaction. The Court of Directors was slow to believe him guilty; Parliament expressed a strong suspicion of his guilt, and wished for further information. Mr.
And Maurice, who felt who was certain that the young man was lying, impudently lying, was abashed by this scientific prevarication which is so universally practised in good society, and of which he was entirely ignorant. But what did the marquis desire here and why this farce?
"Being honest doesn't mean being made of glass," she said brusquely; "you don't know anything about me, Mr. Morton. You have simply discovered that I have not a leaning toward prevarication. That's all your fine words amount to. Since I must keep up a reputation for telling the truth, I'm obliged to say that you don't remind me of Adam very much."
Mind, I must have truthful and straightforward answers no prevarication. Mrs. Ellis looked at the two girls, and then at her husband, with astonishment, not having the least idea of what was coming; yet she felt very uneasy. 'Mabel, said Mr. Ellis, addressing his eldest daughter, 'you were out yesterday?
Here was no concealment; no prevarication respecting the whole truth; and how much better was this than any attempt at evasion or dishonesty! We are not, indeed, always obliged to disclose our circumstances to every inquirer; but, if we do, our words ought to be the exact representation of the case: for, sooner or later, integrity will be advantageous both to our character and our real interests.
"No, no, you are a good boy; but mind what I tell you, and don't bring me into a scrape with any of your real lies." Prevarication, the worst of falsehoods, was a virtue in his eyes. So much for the old man's morality.
I should meet with a thousand obstacles in the tenderness and terror of Eliza, and in the prudent affection of her father. Their arguments I should be condemned to hear, but should not be able to confute; and should only load myself with imputations of perverseness and temerity. But how else should I explain my absence? I had hitherto preserved my lips untainted by prevarication or falsehood.
Lord Cairnforth could hardly help smiling at the poor little sinner the infant Jesuit attaining his object by such an ingenious device; but the mother didn't smile, and her look was harder than ever. "You hear! If not a lie, it was a prevarication. He who lies is a scoundrel, but he who prevaricates is a scoundrel and coward too. Sooner than Boy should grow up like like that, I would rather die.
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