...difficulty had arisen to make Julia conscious of the truth of those lines of Sir Walter Scott — " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! " Too truly she felt as if entangled in a net from which she could not get free. " Miss Julia, I...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...right direction, and that her ill-temper had vanished to the winds. CHAPTER XII. THE FIRST FALSEHOOD. ' Oh what a tangled web we weave, ! When first we practise to deceive ! ' Marmion. ' There is a wicked spirit Watching round you still, And he tries to tempt you To all...

...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...

...intrigues, and inclined even to utter sorrowfully, in her repentance, during the small hours — ' Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive !' But falling asleep towards morning, the pretty deceptress woke refreshed, and ' stronger-minded,'...