I see denial in your looks,' he cried, abruptly pointing in his face, and stepping back, 'and denial is a lie!' He had his hand upon his sword; but the knight, with a contemptuous smile, replied to him as coldly as before.
'You will take notice, sir--if you can discriminate sufficiently--that I have taken the trouble to deny nothing.

Your discernment is hardly fine enough for the perusal of faces, not of a kind as coarse as your speech; nor has it ever been, that I remember; or, in one face that I could name, you would have read indifference, not to say disgust, somewhat sooner than you did.

I speak of a long time ago,--but you understand me.' 'Disguise it as you will, you mean denial.

Denial explicit or reserved, expressed or left to be inferred, is still a lie.

You say you don't deny.