...to avow it. How crooked and uncertain are the ways of deceit ! Truly indeed has the poet written, " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! " and sadly was Harry beginning to illustrate this truth by his rapid progress in duplicity. " Is...

...it could have been that had thus depressed her when Arthur was by her side. VOL. II. CHAPTER II. " Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." SCOTT. " Banished from her Is self from self ; a deadly banishment ! What light is light, if Silvia be not...

...with this desire, and she turned and twisted the thought in her mind how best to make him stop away. " Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! " What an illustration of this truth were the conduct and feelings of poor Sarah Ward ! Her manner...

...whom I could entirely rely, and who had promised to deliver anything so sent only into my own hands. " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive !" " On arriving one day at the cottage, I found a letter apprizing me that the dreaded event had taken...

...APHORISMS. OF all bad things with which mankind are curst, Their own bad tempers surely are the worst. Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive. DR. FRANKLIN. DR. FRANKLIN, in the early part of his life, and when following the business of a printer,...

...distinction in any sphere of life that we would have it considered well — as a beacon to warn from ruin. ' Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! ' Despite his marvellous talents, his industry, his knowledge, his magnitude of mind, his glorious...

...say nothing on the subject, and thus unintentionally laid the train for much future dissimulation. " Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." CHAPTER VIII. " No after friendships e'er can raise Th' endearments of our early days, Nor e'er the...

...of that, I trow. Yet Clare's sharp questions must I shun ; Must separate Constance from the Nun — Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive I A Palmer too ! — no wonder why I felt rebuked beneath his eye : I might have known there was but...

...dinner, Gusty hastened to his own ship, and retired to read his letter. CHAPTER XLII. THE LETTER. " Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive." SCOTT. STY found himself in his own "caboose," and opened the er. Its contents were as follows : From Rosalia...

...before she slept ; and Georgina and Charlotte whispered occasionally till quite late. CHAPTER V. " Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, "When first we practise to deceive." SCOTT'S MARHIOX. ALAS, for Grace's wise determination to make up all deficiencies by early rising !...