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Why should I tell a lie about it?

To be sure it would be letting the devil have too good a bargain.

Yes; lying for a small matter is great unthrift; yet I have heard of a woman, who called herself ten years younger than she was, to make her age a proper match to her rose-coloured top-knot. (Looking archly at her head-dress.)

Say what you please, young master; but if Sir Cameron gave you leave to look at his books when he is absent, it is what he never allowed to any one before.

I did not say he gave me leave to look at them in his absence.

And what if he should return suddenly, and find you turning over his books? that would make a fine rumpus, I trow.

Would he punish me?