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Sylvester interrupted quickly. "Caroline! Caroline!" he said, "don't make any mistake. Don't misjudge your uncle again. He is a good man; one of the best men I ever knew. Yes, and one of the wisest. Don't say or think anything for which you may be sorry. I am speaking as your friend." She turned toward him once more, the distressed, puzzled look still on her face.
"You mean well," she said, giving her hand back to me again, "but it is not pity Ysolinde needs nor yet desires. But that is no matter. Come in hither and see what may abide for you in the depths of the black pool." At the curtained doorway she turned and looked me in the eyes. "If you were as other young men it would be easy for you to misjudge me.
He would have communicated his fears to Dorothy, but he feared lest she should misjudge him and interpret it as an ebulition of jealousy, and there was none other except his friend Crowleigh in whom he could confide.
She is looking down now, and is tapping the ground impatiently with her foot. "You ought," says Fabian, quietly. "To misjudge one's neighbor is one of the commonest failings of mankind." There is meaning in his tone.
"Well, we haven't, and if we had I wouldn't give you any." "You misjudge me, madam. You must not think I am a drinker." "It's no matter what I think. You can't get any whisky here." At Daneboro Tom fared better. He changed his gold piece, drank a pint of whisky, and the next day retraced his steps to old Peter's cabin.
Again she hesitated, and then, with a reckless motion like one who throws prudence to the winds, she turned upon me. 'It is from my father, said she. 'But why should he harm me? 'That is for your sagacity to discover. 'But I assure you, mademoiselle, that in this matter you misjudge him, said I. 'As it happens, he interfered to save my life last night. 'To save your life! From whom?
No one had seemed to question until Brian in a burst of temper had brought the world about his ears. Well, let the world misjudge him if it chose. He was big enough, he knew, to hold his head above it. In a mood of lively irony he whipped forth a notebook and wrote a sarcastic summary of his shortcomings, his lips curled in hostile interest.
"Douce maiden," returned the Nevile, "it is happy for thee that thy sex forbids thee to follow thy father's footsteps, or I should say his hard fate were thy fair warning." Sibyll smiled faintly, and after a pause, said, with a deep blush, "You have been generous to my father; do not misjudge him. He would give his last groat to a starving beggar.
"Which remark is equivalent to a confession. Dave," suddenly changing, "why should we quarrel, and misjudge each other? You cannot suppose I have forgotten the past, or am indifferent. Cannot you forgive the mistake of a thoughtless girl? Is there any reason why we should not be, at least, friendly?" There was an appeal in her voice, but the man's face did not respond.
"I suppose I really am too fond of arguing." "There you misjudge yourself. You are instructive rather than argumentative. Saying the same thing over and over again in different language is not arguing, you know; I should rather call it preaching, if I were not afraid of hurting your feelings." "You are a very rude boy! But, anyway, I have taught you a lot of things; you can't deny that."
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