Excerpt from Jamesie The worst documentary drawback was (he mentioned suddenly) that people lie so, in letters; and the more moving the times they live in, the more they lie. He was proceeding to illustrate, from the material under his hand, when du Frettay rather hastily interrupted him. He said the same people lied much more in life and literature: that is to say, they arranged things. He implied that it was no more than tolerable good manners, in society, to arrange things, and that in one's correspondence, it was ...
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Excerpt from Jamesie The worst documentary drawback was (he mentioned suddenly) that people lie so, in letters; and the more moving the times they live in, the more they lie. He was proceeding to illustrate, from the material under his hand, when du Frettay rather hastily interrupted him. He said the same people lied much more in life and literature: that is to say, they arranged things. He implied that it was no more than tolerable good manners, in society, to arrange things, and that in one's correspondence, it was purely a question of style. Then he said, that at least your letter-writer betrayed his own nature in lying, the form of his lying, which your newspaper-correspondent never did. There Her bert agreed with him, and they shook hands upon it; and both made an exception for Jim, the soul of truth and style as well: and they shook hands again. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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