War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy. Vol 1, Part VI.
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'It Was Not a Matter of Life, but Rather of Death as the Saying Is
Rostov was a truthful young man, and would on no account have told a deliberate lie. He began his story meaning to tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, and inevitably, he lapsed into falsehood. It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it. His hearers expected a story of how beside himself and all a flame with excitement, he had flown like a storm at the square,. Cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his saber had tasted flesh, and he had fallen exhausted; so he told them all that. In the middle of his story, just as he was saying,
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