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I listened oh! with such a heavy heart, with such a crushing sense of disenchantment and despair! The idol of my worship, the companion, guide, protector of my life had he fallen so low? could he stoop to such shameless prevarication as this? Was there one word of truth in all that he had said to me? Yes!
We know that there is a legal presumption against men, quando se nimis purgitant; and if a charge of ambition is not refuted by an affected humility, certainly the character of fraud and perfidy is still less to be washed away by indications of meanness. Fraud and prevarication are servile vices.
"Hugh," she said she went straight to the point, she always did; as a hunter goes at a hedge, so her ladyship without prevarication went at the matter she had in hand "I have been talking to Marjorie about Tom Arundel " His cheery face grew a little grave. "Yes?" "Well, it is absurd you realise that?" "I suppose so, but " He paused. "It is childish folly!" "Do you think so?
Sefton was amazed, and struck with a consciousness of discovered guilt. 'I am now fully aware, I said, 'Mr. Sefton, of your cause for interest in my affairs, and of the manner in which you have evinced it' He had by a violent effort recovered his equanimity, and said, 'Prevarication or denial I suppose to be useless. You have probably outbid me for the confidence of this miserable villain.
Fathers of the country! there is here such complicated ingratitude and abuse of confidence, of contradiction and chicanery, of prevarication and treason, that profoundly indignant at so much wickedness concealed beneath the cloak of philosophy and hypocritical civism, we say to you Your decree has saved the country, and if they are obstinate in refusing you permission to save the country, well, the nation will save itself, for, after all, the power of a veto has a termination a veto does not prevent the taking of the Bastille.
I saw that the Parliament was less inclined than ever to engage in a war, by reason of the desertion of the army of M. de Turenne; I saw the deputies at Ruel emboldened by the success of their prevarication; I saw the people of Paris as ready to admit the Archduke as ever they could be to receive the Duc d'Orleans; I saw that in a week's time this Prince, with beads in his hand, and Fuensaldagne with his money, would have greater power than ourselves; that M. de Bouillon was relapsing into his former proposal of using extremities, and that the other generals would be precipitated into the same violent measures by the scornful behaviour of the Court, who now despised all because they were sure of the Parliament.
"An unworthy prevarication," replied Catherine, "by which you seek to work my ruin, and accomplish your union with Anne Boleyn. And you will no doubt succeed; for what can I, a feeble woman, and a stranger in your country, do to prevent it? You will succeed, I say you will divorce me and place her upon the throne. But mark my words, Henry, she will not long remain there." The king smiled bitterly
Thank you, sir. If you'll just step in here, sir, I hope to be able to explain all to your satisfaction." They entered a little office connected with a weighing-machine, which happened to be vacant at the time. "Now, mind," said Frank Oldfield, when they were shut in alone, "I'll have a straightforward statement, without any prevarication, or I give you over at once into custody.
As is not uncommon on such occasions, one of the parties got a little warm in the course of the discussion, for Deerslayer met all the arguments and prevarication of his subtle opponent with his own cool directness of manner, and unmoved love of truth.
My hesitation and prevarication had apparently not inspired my interlocutor with confidence in me. "Then let me in. I have just driven over from K in this infernal rain. I am wet through and through." "But what do you want here, at the Corners? What's your business? People don't come here, leastways in the middle of the night." "It is n't in the middle of the night," I returned, incensed.
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