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"How coldly you speak of it! One would think it had happened in Peru, instead of here, this very morning." Saracinesca was at his wits' end. He wanted to smooth the matter over, or at least to soften the unfavourable impression against Giovanni. He had not the remotest idea how to do it. He was not a very diplomatic man. "No, no; you misunderstand me. I am not cold.
But surely the merest novice was competent to do all that Solmes had done, to misunderstand orders, to send cavalry on duty which none but infantry could perform, and to look on at safe distance while brave men were cut to pieces.
Micah, like his great contemporary Isaiah, and the most of the prophets, wages war against that misconception of sacrifice, but does not thereby protest against its use. To suppose that he does so is to misunderstand his whole argument. Another misuse of the words of my text is by no means uncommon to-day.
In this love that has come to us we have achieved an ideal which I have never thought to reach. Oh, John, I'm sure you won't misunderstand me when I say that I would rather die than have to lower it." "No," he answered, "I shall not misunderstand you." "Even though it is so difficult to put into words what I mean.
We take for granted much too readily, I think, that he will misunderstand us." "Mr Rathbone's temper is peculiar," replied Mr Barker. "A somewhat haughty spirit was rendered imperious by the power and rank he possessed in India.
So then we come to this, dear friends, that we fearfully misunderstand and limit the nobleness and the essential character of prayer when, as we are always tempted to do by our inherent self-regard, we make petition its main feature and form.
Now, the real question is at least, it seems to me so you don't mind my talking to you just as I would to myself, do you? Very well. If I were in your position, I should ask myself, as a man of honour, whether I really loved her as much as she loved me, or whether I had only been taken off my feet by her beauty. Don't misunderstand me, my boy!
Bangs," she said, slowly, "has some one been tellin' you that I needed money and are you makin' me this offer out of well, out of charity?" Galusha jumped violently. He turned quite pale. "Oh, dear, dear, dear!" he cried, in a great agitation. "Oh, dear me, dear me! No, INDEED, Miss Phipps! I am VERY sorry you should so misunderstand me.
And, therefore, let us not misunderstand such words as this text, and fancy that the necessary discipline, which we have to go through before we are ready for heaven, is necessary in anything like the same sense in which it is necessary that a man should have faith in Christ in order to be saved. The one may be dispensed with, the other cannot.
I couldn't think of such a thing; I hate April jokes." "No, no, you misunderstand," burst forth Mary; and then, forgetting all her awkwardness, she made her little statement over again, and this time succinctly and clearly.
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