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"Do you mean that that we are to to remain in the station that we believed our own?" "What else?" She stared at him. Here was a generosity so weak, it seemed to her, as almost to provoke her scorn. "You will leave your brother in possession of the title and what else there may be?" "You think me generous, madam," said he. "Do not misapprehend me. I am not.
Undoubting and often fanatical belief was the rule. It is easy enough to be astonished at it, still easier to misapprehend it. How could sane men have been deceived by such nursery-tales? Still more, how could they have suffered themselves, on what seems to us such puerile evidence, to consent to such atrocious cruelties, nay, to urge them on?
"My dear sir," he said softly, "it is necessary that you should not misapprehend the situation. The person of whom we are in search is one whom we are pledged to find. We have no quarrel with you! Why embroil yourself in an affair with which you have no concern?" "I am not seeking to do so," I answered. "It is you and your friend who are the aggressors.
"You're to understand that I, for one, don't relish your impudence," the stout Popinot snapped. "Sorry.... But I have already indicated my inability to take you seriously." "Why not?" the American demanded ominously. "You'd be sore enough if we took you as a joke, wouldn't you?" "You misapprehend, Mr. ah Smith: it is my first aim and wish that you do not take me in any manner, shape or form.
When Charles Romaine was trying to abstain, you tempted him to break his resolution, and he drank to please you. I wouldn't have done so for my right hand." "They say old coals are easily kindled, and I shall be somewhat chary about receiving attention from him, if you feel so deeply upon the subject." "Jeanette you entirely misapprehend me. Because I have ceased to regard Mr.
Some few may be, but their nation is not their country is not; the era of Christianity has yet to come, and when it comes, then, only then, will be the future of nations sure. Far be it from me to misapprehend the immense benefit which Christian religion, such as it already is, has operated in mankind's history.
"And you have been laboring upon this field for five years! How could it be so small?" Wynkoop pushed back his chair, anxious to redeem himself in the estimation of this fair stranger. "Miss Spencer," he explained, "it is perhaps hardly strange that you should misapprehend the peculiar conditions under which religious labor is conducted in the West.
This is not the place to enter upon the politico-social question, but the writer may note one impression gathered from much friendly and agreeable conversation. It is that the Southern whites misapprehend and make a scarecrow of "social equality."
Shall we wonder that they sometimes deceive themselves rather than their neighbors that they sometimes misapprehend their own feelings, and mistake for love some less absorbing intruder, who but lights upon the heart for a single instant, as a bird upon his spray, to rest or to plume his pinions, and be off with the very next zephyr.
Lest some pilgrim of erring judgment should mistake the horns for short ones, or misapprehend the nature of the business conducted within, the white false front of the building proclaimed in letters of black a foot high: LONG HORN SALOON. While beneath the legend was depicted a fat, vermilion clad cowboy mounted upon a tarantula-bodied, ass-eared horse of pink, in the act of hurling a cable-like rope which by some prodigy of dexterity was made to describe three double-bows and a latigo knot before its loop managed to poise in mid-air above the head of a rabbit-sized baby-blue steer whose horns exceeded in length the pair of Texas monstrosities that graced the doorway.
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