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As to the divorce, it will be well to clear away the enormous amount of argument, of vituperation and prevarication by which the whole question is obscured, and to seek by the magnet of common sense to find the needle of truth in this vast bundle of hay. The situation was complicated.
I detest pitiful prevarication, sir," cried the Vicar warmly. "The knife was dropped by whoever it was stripped the wall of my golden drops last night. There, take your knife, sir, I have altered my intentions. I did mean to speak to your uncle." "What about?" said Uncle Richard, who had come up unheard in the excitement. "Good-morning, Maxted. Any one's cow dead? Subscription wanted?"
Prevarication, misrepresentation, and dishonesty of speech appeared in their first utterances and was as natural to them as any of their infantile diseases, and was a sort of moral croup or spiritual scarlatina. But many have been placed in circumstances where this tendency has day by day, and hour by hour, been called to larger development.
"I fail to see how a newspaper can be made to prevaricate truthfully," asserted Mr. Whitechoker. To tell the truth, he was greatly disappointed with the idea, because he could not in the nature of things become one of its beneficiaries. "I haven't suggested prevarication," said the Idiot.
If he did not intend now to fulfil his promise, I begged he would take back his spears, for I would only accept them as a farewell present. This second prevarication completely set my dander up. If I did not believe in his dangers of the way before, it quite settled my opinion of the worth of his words now. I therefore tendered him what might be called the ultimatum to this effect.
"My dear boy, I thought you were not coming till to-morrow at the earliest." "Will it be inconvenient?" asked Christopher, with demure gravity. "I'm sorry, but I was so bored." He stumbled a little over the prevarication. St. Michael was not Peter Masters, even excuses found no easy flow in his presence. "I'm delighted," said Mr. Aston, and looked it.
Accused of this prevarication, she was still more disconcerted; said, and unsaid; confessed herself the mother of the infant, but declared she did not know, then owned she did know, the name of the man who had undone her, but would never utter it.
If there is anything that annoys, irritates, or makes me dissatisfied with the men the gentlemen under my command, it is evasion, shuffling, shirking, or prevarication."
He draws no clear line of distinction between a lie, a falsehood, a deceit, and a prevarication, or between a justifiable concealment and an unjustifiable concealment; and in his various illustrations of his position he uses these terms indiscriminately, in such a way as to indicate that he knows no essential difference between them, or that he does not care to emphasize any difference.
Capitola turned and strode furiously up and down the piazza, and then, stopping suddenly and facing him, with a sharp stamp of her foot exclaimed: "Old gentleman! Tell me instantly and without prevarication, where have you been?" "To the demon with you! What do you mean? Have you taken leave of your senses?" demanded Old Hurricane.
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