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"Browning is in a blue funk whenever he thinks of stacking up against the freshman," one sophomore confidentially told another. "I believe he has lost his nerve." "It looks that way," admitted the other. Thus it came about that Bruce's appearance led his former admirers to misjudge him, and he saw a growing coolness toward him.
I don't misjudge her, for one. Teresa has left me; and you are going away next. A miserable prospect, Ovid, but not quite without hope. Frances yes, I call her by her Christian name, and she calls me by mine! Frances will console me, and make my life as happy as it can be till you come back."
Not to be loved and admired would have been the strangest thing to Violet. She would hardly have recognised herself in an unappreciative circle. If she could have heard Lady Mabel talking about her, it would have been like the sudden revelation of an unknown world a world in which it was possible for people to dislike and misjudge her.
"Sure, and he's also adjutant-general, and if I know him at all he's the very man to place official duty and honour and all the rest of it above family considerations." "Oh, Richard, how little you know Terence! How wrong you are to misjudge him like this!" "Right or wrong, I'd prefer not to take the risk. It might end in my being shot one fine morning before long." "Richard!"
'Have I offended you, then, by asking you to meet me? I trusted you. I thought you would never misjudge me. 'I should be but too happy to find I had been unjust to you, Miss Coningham. I would gladly go on my knees to you to confess that fault, if I could only be satisfied of its existence. Assure me of it, and I will bless you. 'How strangely you talk! Some one has been maligning me. 'No one.
Sylvia made no effort to draw away from him; at last she asked, in a voice which was almost pleading in its quality: "Is that what you think of me?" Austin dropped his hand. "Good God, Sylvia!" he said hoarsely; "don't you know by this time what I think of you?" "Then you mean that you want me to marry you?" "No, no, no!" he cried. "Why are you so bound to misunderstand and misjudge me?
I allowed you to read the letter, never thinking but that some pang of forgotten honour would paralyse your tongue. You read it to the end. You complain there is no art in it, that it has no delicate provocations, such as your own countrywomen would not fail to use. It should be the more sacred on that account, and I am glad to believe that you misjudge your country women.
There is no record that Howe took him at his word, but he well might have done so, so completely did he misjudge the situation. For about the same time he wrote to Lord Dartmouth that he was not apprehending any attempt by Washington, "by surprise or otherwise." But the surprise came. On the night of the second of March the American batteries, so long silent, began to play.
There is an Italian who peddles ice from a handcart on our street, and he never sees me without a grin. The folk who run our grocery, a man and his wife, seem happy all the day. No! we misjudge the city and we have done so since the days of Wordsworth. If we prized the city rightly, we would be at more pains to make it better to lessen its suffering.
"Nonsense!" said Lottie; "with auntie in the hall? If you think Mr. Hemstead is brave enough for that, you greatly misjudge him." But De Forrest was wofully suspicious, and had many uneasy thoughts about the "jest" which Lottie must be carrying out; for surely it could not be possible that she was becoming in earnest.
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