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I felt, too, at length, that I was growing morbid, that suspicion coloured my mind and caused me, perhaps, to put a wrong interpretation on many of her actions, to exaggerate and misconstrue the most simple things she did. I began to believe her every look premeditated.
I have no apprehension that any man in Illinois, or beyond the limits of our own beloved State, will misconstrue or misunderstand my motive. So far as any of the partisan questions are concerned, I stand in equal, irreconcilable, and undying opposition both to the Republicans and the secessionists.
You say you won't marry Mr. Jarvis or anyone else." "No," Mabel admitted, "but because I won't marry it hardly seems fair that we should stand in the way of Dick's doing so." "What do you intend to imply by 'standing in the way'? Really Mabel, sometimes I wonder if you have any love for me, you so habitually and wilfully misconstrue my sentences. One loses them so once they marry."
Among other considerations, he said, was the fact that practically all the Central and South American republics were jealous of their big Yankee neighbor. "If our government were to make a hostile move toward Mexico," he declared, "the other Latin republics would misconstrue our motives.
Evidently it was to be taken quietly for granted that these two were engaged. She guessed that Prince Vanno had hinted at the truth in order that she should not misconstrue Mary's actions. He was almost forcing their relationship upon her notice, and her husband's notice, as if to justify his being with the girl unchaperoned. "Not that we should have minded," Rose said to herself.
If you can convert her to your way of thinking, it is well. I solemnly engage to do whatever she directs." "This is insolence. You trifle with me. You pretend to misconstrue my meaning." "When you charge me with insolence, I think you afford pretty strong proof that you mistake my meaning. I have not the least intention to offend you." "Let me be explicit with you.
I acted with full deliberation, and upon the certain conviction that it was a measure right and necessary, and I think so still. "In regard to the other point of the proclamation to which you refer, I desire to say that I do not think the Enemy can either misconstrue or urge anything against it, or undertake to make unusual retaliation.
Perhaps it is self-respect that protests, repudiates, denies what you have said to me of yourself; and perhaps it is a sentiment less austere. I can no longer judge. "And now that I have the courage or effrontery to write you once more, will you misconstrue my letter and my motive?
What a boor she must have thought me, to misconstrue her simple act of kindness! I loathed myself with a hatred that sent me groveling to my blanket in the pantry, and that kept me, once there, awake through all the early part of the summer night. I wakened with a sense of oppression, of smothering heat.
In this way I hope to avoid the error into which the detective is so prone to fall. Once you set up an hypothesis you unconsciously, and in spite of yourself, accentuate unduly the importance of all data making toward that hypothesis, while, on the other hand you either utterly neglect, misconstrue, or fail to fully appreciate, the evidence oppugnant to your theory.
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