It did not seem possible to carry on the deception much longer, but if things were bad now, what would they be when Aunt Selina learned she had been lied to, made ridiculous, generally deceived?
So Aunt Selina read some religious poetry out of the newspapers, and gave us a valuable talk on Deception versus Honesty, with me as the illustration.
But however I might tremble I had carried the deception too far, and could not draw back.
If this had been the only truth he concealed, it would have been well, for it was a piece of deception that hurt no one.
It is possible that the Charpillon would have granted me any favour on that day, and then there would have been no question of deception or resistance for the future.
I found Helen there, and she was cunning enough to feign not to be more vexed at my departure than the others, and to further the deception she allowed the syndic to kiss her.
That may be the test of a man's love, but a woman will bear the pain of that very deception to save the man she cares for from disquiet.
What puzzles me most is that while I can analyze myself in this lofty way, I believe I have in me possibilities of self-deception so complete.
Very little self-deception is necessary, and in this department success is invariable.
This shallow piece of self-deception was ripe for disillusionment when Sally took its victim out for a walk round to show him the place.
You needn't tell her where you are,' replied Alice; and then she hesitated, feeling keenly conscious of the deception she was practising.
The charges frequently made and persistently urged that Mormonism had its origin in deception and conscious fraud have failed of their purpose.
Benjamin was somewhat puzzled by this unexpected turn of affairs, but still he did not dream of deception or dishonesty.
Now Benjamin had to speak for himself; for they all turned to him with their inquiries, as if they thought there must be some mistake or deception about the matter.
This partly results from the nature of the imitation; a vulgar deception is often practised upon us: what is not a flower is intended to pass for one.
In almost all cases, deception is obtained, not by painting well, but by those artifices which disguise that what we see is a painting.
With respect to the imitations of the landscape-painter, the notion of a deception cannot occur.
His only chance of deception is to get rid of the frame, convert his picture into a transparency, and place it in the space which a window should occupy.
It seemed likely these two women had some plan that included the preliminary deception of myself, and the sooner I knew something about it the better.
There was intended to be no deception about that part of our arrangements; nor was there.
Oh, if he had but done this before--before I had travelled this weary road of deception and falsehood!
In a world where much is said of female deception and inconstancy, I desire to testify that one man at least has placed implicit confidence in woman, and has not been disappointed.
The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.
To play the jilt; to practice deception in love; to discard lovers capriciously.
Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
These words both imply some deception practiced upon the mind.
A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.
Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick.
Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.
Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish.
In the present case, however, they seem to be too well seen for self-deception of the sort.
To one versed in Martian canal detection there is no possibility of self-deception in the case, the canals being very much more salient objects to an expert than those who have not seen them suppose.
If such there be in reality, if this rapture of departing glory be anything more than the deception of a distempered excitement, the subject of its exhibition is to be greatly pitied.
He requested it so earnestly, that I could not refuse taking what I am sensible is a great liberty; for it would be deception did I affect to be ignorant of his admiration, or of his generous treatment of a passion she cannot return.
It would have been no subject of surprise, had admiration, or some more powerful feeling, betrayed to the artist, on this occasion, the deception the young man was practising.
Lady Moseley, in a glow of delight, as she saw at once through some juvenile folly a deception which promised both happiness and rank to one of her children.
This is not a deception in the slightest," he thought; "though he supposes they are by Leibgeber; I have no other name now.
But you will be able to have done with all this deception now, and to make amends for it, will you not?
The consequences of this ruinous neglect and self-deception became soon evident.
The deception was wrought by simply adding to a sentence in Featherstonehaugh's Travels in America four lines of the hoaxer's own, recording the disgraceful lie referred to.
And finally, in a sinister flash of revelation, came the thought that Grafton himself was at the back of this deception of my grandfather, as to my principles.
And finally, like a leaden weight, the thought of the deception I had practised upon him, of which he must have learned ere this.
I bit my lip; for, since that unhappy deception of Mr. Carvel, I had not meant to be drawn into an avowal of my sentiments.
He was no longer threadbare and shabby, and the only bit of deception about him--his wig--had been long ago confessed and forgiven.
This comes of a wig," said he; "a wig is deception, deception is rascality.
A man guilty of one deception must not take it in dudgeon that he is suspected of another.
This, and the outside pressure which would be likely to be brought to bear upon B to make public the fraud, would render it almost impossible to carry on the deception for any great length of time.
Firing on the White Beach area itself was minimal for purposes of deception and for lack of suitable targets.
His purpose was two-fold: destruction and deception to confuse and deceive the Japanese as to the landing intentions of the Marines.
They were carrying the 2d and 8th Marines (infantry regiments) of the 2d Marine Division on a mission of deception that turned out to be far bloodier than the White Beach landings and far bloodier than anyone had anticipated.
To keep up the deception I had to crab it and say that the faults were mine.
Further attempts atdeception would have been vain cruelty.
