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to plead for falsehood in any shape.
But I hope you will think it all over
when you go home. Ask yourself—ask
your conscience, whether such liberties
as you have taken with the truth are
right, will you, Frank 2?”

I promised her that I would. I kept
my promise, too; and the more I thought
of what she had said, the more clearly I
saw that I had been trying, though with-
out intending it, to justify falsehood. I
saw, that if such white lies were wel-
comed into good company, a door was
opened to let in all manner of lies, al-
most, that ever Satan invented.