Take the following as truth: This is my specially sharpened scimitar, and it's off with your head if I'm at all displeased with you!' Miss Cynthia, she was what they call an Apache, or some such name ”a Frenchified sort of cut-throat, I take it to be. 
Then the following statement: "Miss Cynthia's scimitar was blunt and couldn't cut through paper." is true, false, or inconclusive?