And Belle and her girls will gladly lie themselves black in the face and say Mr. Wilkes and the others were--upstairs all evening. And the Yankees will believe them. Yankees are queer that way.

• 贝尔和她那些姑娘们更会情愿不顾脸面地扯谎，说威尔克斯先生和另外几个人都是----整个晚上在她们楼上的，她们的话，北方佬也会相信的。