[Parkhurst Boys by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookParkhurst Boys CHAPTER ELEVEN 4/8
As it happens, he does neither. There is a touch of dishonesty in this, though perhaps Tim does not intend it.
Why cannot he own he is "out of it" now and then? His fellows would respect him far more and laugh at him far less; he would gain far more than he lost, besides having the satisfaction of knowing he had not tried to deceive anybody.
But I sometimes think, when Tim makes his absurd excuses, he really believes what he says; just as the ostrich, when he buries his head in the sand, really believes he is hidden from the sight of his pursuers. It is natural in human nature not to relish the constant admission of error or failure.
Who of us is not glad to feel at times (even if we do not say it) that "it's not our fault"? The person who is always making little of himself, and never admitting what small merit he might fairly claim, is pretty much the same sort of deception as Tim, and we despise him almost as much.
We would all of us, in fact (and what wonder ?) like to be "always right," and perhaps our tendency is to let the wish become father to the thought rather too often. But to return to Timothy.
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