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"Oh! I see it now," said Barbara, and her blood was up. "You mean to force me to it. What you did for father " Brewster glowered at her, thinking that he had misunderstood. "What do you mean?" he said. "He has told me all about that wretched bank business. But poor father thought you quite disinterested. He did not see the little game behind your melodrama.
No wonder that a writer having occasion to examine into the evidence a few years ago, and commenting on it, should exclaim: "Great God! and is this the road our ancestors had to travel in their pilgrimage in quest of freedom and Christianity? Are these the misunderstood doctrines of total depravity?" Reverend Mr. Noyes seemed to rival Mr. Parris in the persecution of witches. "You are a witch.
I rejoice that our venerable friend, when in the prime of his extraordinary powers, and at a period of life when the flame of ambition glows wildest, turned his back upon the gilded phantoms which have lured so many to destruction, and sought repose in the bosom of domestic life. The conduct of Mr. Tazewell in respect of public office has also been misunderstood.
The brief which they read to him from the pope, expressed the sorrow of his Holiness at finding how greatly the term "beneficium" had been misunderstood, and declared that no other than its ordinary meaning in the Latin language was intended by it, and that the meaning of feoff had not for a moment been entertained.
In the confusion of so great a movement, a division designed by Bennigsen to occupy the town itself, misunderstood the order, and evacuated it at the approach of the enemy's van.
The manservant and the maid whom Heinz Schorlin had made his messengers certainly could have no conception of the bond that united her to him; even her own sister had misunderstood it. He should now learn that Eva Ortlieb knew what beseemed her! But she, too, longed for another meeting, and this conduct rendered it necessary. The sooner they two had a conversation, the better.
"That kind of religion has not been invented, but it will come in when we have good men without convictions, parties without principles and geometry without theories." If there is anything un-American in all this, it is because the term is misunderstood and misapplied. We are sorry if others find us at odds on religious grounds.
'Don't mind dressing; come just as you are. Another misunderstood answer was that of the absent-minded man who entered a hansom and began to read a paper. 'Where to? at last cabby asked laconically. 'Drive to the usual place. 'I'm afraid I have too much on the slate there, sir, unless you pay my footing. 'Oh, go to hell, retorted the other in a rage.
Hence it was that the British officials, although altogether well-intentioned, allowed grave wrongs to arise. The new English judges, not unnaturally, misunderstood the seigneurial system. They stumbled readily into the error that tenure en censive was simply the old English tenure in copyhold under another name.
Charmian could trapse along at our heels, but we were MEN, and we could go right over that bridge while she would have to go around by whale-boat. Now I should not care to be misunderstood by what follows; but it is a matter of common knowledge in the Solomons that attacks of fever are often brought on by shock.
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