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And do try to disabuse the man's mind of the preposterous, Germany-fostered notion that your country regards this war merely as a vehicle for commercial aggrandizement, or that the British Foreign Office proposes to maintain the Black List and other bugbears after the War.
He walked up and down his room saying what lurid things he would directly do if any one accused him of respectability, so that he might disabuse the minds of all witnesses. There were four or five of his assistants and contributors listening to the dreadful threats, which did not deceive even so great innocence as mine, but I do not know whether they found it the sorry farce that I did.
"There have been times in the past when I, too, have doubted my sanity in my dealings with the group who now hold us in their power." "But," reiterated the other, his voice rising higher and higher, "what does it mean, my dear sir? It is incredible fantastic! Even now I find it difficult to disabuse my mind of that old, haunting idea." "Disabuse it at once, Sir Baldwin," I said bitterly.
"I did not tell you that I aspired to the honour of marrying her." "No, and I did not say anything about marriage; but that's what the girls are always aiming at." "I must go and disabuse her of the notion." "That's a good idea; principals are always the best in these affairs.
With the history of Spanish cruelty in Cuba before them, and the memory of Spanish barbarities through all their existence as a nation, the people could mot disabuse their minds of this suspicion.
"Yes, at the expense of my own reputation," said Alice, "and the risk of an eternal stain on my family. You say you know all. What can the King think of my appointing an assignation with him after what has passed, and how will it be possible to disabuse him respecting the purpose of my doing so?" "I will disabuse him, Alice; I will explain the whole."
The moment your father learns that I was at Woodbine Lodge, and had an interview with his daughter, at a time when he thought me far distant, our business and personal relations must cease. He will misjudge me from evidence to his mind powerfully conclusive; and I shall be unable to disabuse him of error, because appearances are against me. But I put you in entire freedom.
I would beseech the literary critics of our country to disabuse themselves of the mischievous notion that they are essential to the progress of literature in the way critics have imagined.
To this appeal Laura remained silent for a few moments, and then looking up, said, "What would you have me do, Mrs. Appleton?" "Nothing but what you see to be clearly right. Do not act simply from my persuasion. I urge you as I do, that you may perceive it to be a duty to go to Maria and try to disabuse her of an error that is producing unhappiness." "Then how do you think I ought to act?"
With Reine, this tender feeling had always remained one of friendship, but, with Claudet, it had ripened into love; and now, after allowing the poor young fellow to believe that his love was reciprocated, she was forced to disabuse him. It was useless for her to try to find some way of softening the blow; there was none.
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