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| 19 | 1180 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps some men ignore lies in a slave, pretending not to notice them, or, mistakenly, graciously accept them as trivial, as merely a girl's peccadilloes. |
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| 19 | 1177 | "Have no fear," I said, "you have been helpful and cooperative, and I have obtained much of value from our conversation, more doubtless than you understand. |
| 19 | 1178 | Similarly, as this is the first time we have met, at least formally, I am inclined, somewhat against my better judgment, to be initially lenient. |
| 19 | 1179 | It might be pointed out, for example, that you did not know the sort of men we were. |
| 19 | 1180 | Perhaps some men ignore lies in a slave, pretending not to notice them, or, mistakenly, graciously accept them as trivial, as merely a girl's peccadilloes. |
| 19 | 1181 | But we are not such men. |
| 19 | 1182 | We are not patient with such things. |
| 19 | 1183 | Even had you lied about something as small as a candy or pastry we would not have accepted it. |