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false pretence |
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Looking back on my conduct from the moment I first set foot on your beach, I can see no false pretence that I have made about myself or my intentions. Setting her own inclination apart, to have failed a second time in her engagement to Miss Tilney, to have retracted a promise voluntarily made only five minutes before, and on a false pretence too, must have been wrong. In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. |
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