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They laughed at him, and could not forgive him for despising their vulgar manners. They played all sorts of tricks on him. Jean-Christophe clenched his fists, and said they had better not try it in his presence. Otto also was misunderstood by his family. Jean-Christophe knew the unhappiness of that, and they commiserated each other on their common misfortunes.
I am sorry your mother misunderstood your fun. But you mustn't mind it, dear boy. She's not well, and she's very nervous." "I don't care!" Pony sobbed out. "She won't have a chance to touch me again!" For he had made up his mind to run off with the circus which was coming the next Tuesday.
The summer went by; the chrysanthemums bloomed out white and full in my garden; the frosts came, and then the winter, and then Annie told me one day that before winter came again she would be a mother. She was a little sobered as she saw the intense look on my face. "Why, darling, aren't you glad? I thought you would be almost as glad as I am myself?" Annie sometimes misunderstood me now. "Glad!
For justice is but an earthly currency, paid to appearances; you may see another superficially righted; but be sure he has got too little or too much; and in your own case rest content with what is paid you. It is more just than you suppose; that your virtues are misunderstood is a price you pay to keep your meannesses concealed.
"Why, there is no need of our going yet, if it isn't best. Don't look so! Sally can stay here all summer if it will do her good." "You misunderstood me, Miss Gunn," said the doctor, now himself again. "It will really be perfectly safe for Mrs. Little to go home. She is entirely well." "What did you mean then?" said Hetty, looking him straight in the eye with honest perplexity in her face.
He was hopeful for a moment that he and his companion had not been detected, but a resounding shout echoed through the cavern of diamonds a shout of such amazing power that he knew it had come from the throat of Ziffak himself, who, as if to make sure his meaning was not misunderstood, brandished his mighty javelin over his prodigious head and shoulders, as he almost pushed his leader from the path in front of him.
In many modern schemes of social regeneration it is forgotten that "it takes a soul to move a body, e'en to a cleaner sty," and at the risk of being misunderstood and misrepresented, I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.
He posted the letter to the misunderstood party the letter from you that the Dead Letter Office didn't return. I posted my own letter to her; and that came back." A measurable silence followed the emission of this ingenious conjecture; then Betton observed with gentle irony: "Extremely neat.
He cannot believe himself great unless he is misunderstood, and he hugs his unpopularity to himself as a sign of genius and arrives at that sublime affectation which answers praise of his work with an exclamation of dismay: "Is it as bad as that?"
I knew that if Grace once had an inkling they were in the house she would never rest till she found them. In that case " she paused impressively, and looked about her, "there wouldn't have been one left by to-night." They laughed, well knowing the truth of this remark, while Grace gave a sigh at being so misunderstood.
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