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"We see our error now," they would say; "we were always dull dogs, slow to catch especially in those akin to us the finer qualities of soul! We misunderstood you, misappreciated you, and we own up to it.
My greatest mistakes in England have been committed toward those high dignitaries, my own maid and the butler, whose grandeur I entirely misappreciated and invaded, as in my ignorance I placed them, as we do, on the same level with other servants. She has her fire made for her, and LOAF sugar in her tea, which she and Cates sip in solitary majesty.
Replying to my observation merely by a slight shrug and smile of pity for the man who thus misappreciated his foresight, he again produced his pocket-book, and extracted from its innermost recesses a fragment of a German newspaper, reputed oracular in matters theatrical. This he handed to me, tapping a particular paragraph significantly with his forefinger. The paragraph was thus conceived:
"We see our error now," they would say; "we were always dull dogs, slow to catch especially in those akin to us the finer qualities of soul! We misunderstood you, misappreciated you, and we own up to it.
The following is the concluding letter of the correspondence: July 15, 1862. General: I regret that my last note, which was intended to be conciliatory, has been misunderstood or misappreciated. I take it for granted that you know enough of my previous history to be aware that a hostile meeting, under any circumstances, would be abhorrent to my principles and character.
By virtue of a mutual understanding, this room is always left empty daily at this same time, that madame the princess may fulfil her pious duty untroubled by the sight of any who might be displeasing to her." Here Gonzague sighed profoundly and summoned to his face the expression of a much-wronged, grievously misappreciated man.
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