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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Nevertheless, that a male dissembler who by deluging her with untenable fictions charms the female wisely, may acquire powers reaching to the extremity of perdition, is a truth taught to many by unsought and wringing occurrences.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- Don't be such a dissembler!"†
Chpt 25-27
Definition:
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(dissemble) hide or disguise the truth without outright lying