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In a confusion of ideas, probably not intending a wilful prevarication, she answered hurriedly 'If he's dead, how can you meet him? 'Is he dead? Oh, that's different altogether! said Knight, immensely relieved. 'But, let me see what did you say about that tomb and him? 'That's his tomb, she continued faintly.
There was a tense silence, then Hal turned to the sofa and picked up her hat as if she were a little dazed. She seemed suddenly to have nothing to say, and she knew herself to be no good at prevarication. To congratulate him seemed an impossibility just yet. "Of course I know you have never cared for Doris," he said; "but probably you did not know her well enough.
How are your shoulders?" "I don't know that I have any," replied Steering, with wretched prevarication. "Come on, Honey, come on." Madeira was at the stone steps of the Joplin house, and the girl took his arm and climbed the steps with him. At the top Madeira turned back to Steering, who was a step behind.
It is difficult for people who have been trained from childhood in the school of verities, who have been lectured for even the shadow of a prevarication, and shut up in disgrace for a lie, till truth becomes a habit of their souls, it is very difficult for people so educated to understand how to get on with those who never speak the truth except by mere accident, who assert any and every thing that comes into their heads with all the assurance and all the energy of perfect verity.
Libby before he saw her, or before she could explain that she had got one of the gentlemen at the hotel she resolved upon this prevarication to drive her to Corbitant in default of another conveyance, he would have his impressions and conjectures, which doubtless the bunch of lilies in her hand would do their part to stimulate.
All of a sudden he begun to look me so straight in the eye that I thought he was going to bore through me. Then he says, very deliberate, "Did you come STRAIGHT HERE from your system?" "Yes, sir," I says but I blushed the least little bit in the world when I said it. He looked at me very stern, and says "That is not true; and this is not the place for prevarication. You wandered from your course.
Enid hesitated; the prevarication did not come so easily as she had expected. "Chris has gone," she said. "She passed away an hour ago." Henson muttered something that sounded like consolation. He could be polite and suave enough on occasions, but not to-night. Even philanthropists are selfish at times. Moreover, his nerves were badly shaken and he wanted a stimulant badly.
"I know the facts, and I'll stand no prevarication. Now, tell me, what vile use did you mean to make of your discovery this morning?" Montague Nevitt drew back, fairly nonplussed for the moment by such a vigorous and unexpected attack on his flank. Resourceful as he was, even his cunning mind came wholly unprepared to this sudden cross-questioning.
"Basil" she began, and stopped, not finding another word to add. For prevarication was an accomplishment Diana knew nothing of. She closed her eyes, that they might not see the figure standing there. "Would you like me to fetch your mother to you?" "No," she said, starting. "O no! Don't bring her, Basil." "I will not," said he kindly. "Why should she not come?" "Mother? never. Never, never!
Tellier and Servien thought it sufficient not to applaud him; but the Keeper of the Seals quite forgot his respect for the Cardinal, accused him of prevarication and weakness, and threw himself at her Majesty's feet, conjuring her in the name of the King her son, not to authorise, by an example which he called fatal, the insolence of a subject who was for wresting favours from his sovereign, sword in hand.
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