...in love to bear the jest with equanimity. 203 CHAPTER VIII. " SHE IS NOTHING BUT AN ADVENTURESS." " Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive." CAPTAIN Conyngham lay full length on ^-^ the grass, with his straw hat cast carelessly aside. The trees...

...we are reminded by the trite expression Liars should have good memories, of the words of the poet: Oh! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive. 1 This same proverb is quoted by a Latin writer 2 of the fourth century, and he speaks of it as old...

...would wear the coronet of Chesterton. "Oh," said Mr. Tom Forster, as he thought over all this— " ' Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive.' " VOL, vi. Price 2d. But he was not making rhymes: he was merely quoting the literary baronet Sir Walter...

...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 1 A Palmer too I — no wonder why I felt rebuked beneath his eye : I might have known there was but...

...set our matters to rights, Clary. But oh, dear, do you remember the lines we once read together — Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive ! God forgive. us, Clary, both I " Mrs. Unwin made no answer, but stood looking at her friend, very...

...please myself, which it was necessary to conceal. My wife frequently said to me with a sigh — ' ' ' Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive.' " But now, I will commence my history without any more delay." Every face in the company was turned...

...ILLUSTRATIONS TO SUBJECTS. Front. BIG-TALK STORIES BY FRANCIS BLAKE CROFTOX WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS " Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive1. " FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. BEDFORD STREET, STRAND 1881 v LONDON ! K. CLAY, EONS, AND TAYLOR,...

...fertile in producing troublesome and peculiar claimants to both rank and fortune. Bitterly he thought : ' Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive !' During a pause that ensued, he appeared sunk in reflection) and actually seemed to age more under...

...Luke xiii. 6—10 ; John xv. 6. author of Waverley Novels knew to his cost, and left it on record, — Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! Or again, as Schiller more philosophically puts it, — This is the very curse of evil deed, That...

...into the house, leaving the famished bird without a morsel wherewith to gratify himself. CHAPTER XXII. "Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive." RE you feeling well enough to entertain the old man to-night ? " said the plaintive voice of Alphonse...