Finally, to make things quite clear, his old father fights him openly, tells him home-truth upon home-truth, tears away all his protective screens, and leaves him with his self-respect in tatters.

Finally, to make things quite clear, his old father fights him openly, tells him home-truth upon home-truth, tears away all his protective screens, and leaves him with his self-respect in tatters.

My poor cousin De Guise is my only refuge; and although she occasionally tells me some home-truths, yet she does it with so much good humour that I cannot take offence, and only laugh at her sallies."

I am therefore about to oblige you with a few home-truths.

He has spent all the few daylight-hours in telegraphing for it to every station on the line; in telling several home-truths to the porters at our own station, whichit being Christmas-time, and they consequently all more or less tipsythey have taken with a bland playfulness that he has found a little trying; and, lastly, in writing a long letter to the Times.

" "It never is the right time for the tyrants to let their slaves confer, or to hear home-truths.