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Updated: April 30, 2025
Had Madras miscalculated this woman? Her eyes were afire, and her face was as pale as marble; all its slight but healthy glow had fled. A very faint gasp came from her lips. I saw that she recognised him, as he bowed and mentioned her name, following my introduction. I knew not what might occur, for I saw danger in her eyes in reply to the beseeching look in his.
I had not tasted food for two days. Within a day or two after my arrival, I was enabled to see File in his cell, on the plea of being a clergyman from his native place. I found that I had not miscalculated my danger. The man did not appear to have the least idea as to how I was to help him.
But its attractiveness begins and ends with its picturesqueness. From the time one starts ashore till he gets back again, he execrates it. The boat he goes in is admirably miscalculated for the service it is built for.
He might have miscalculated the strength of his following in Gloria and then it was all but certain that he must die for his mistake. Or he might have calculated wisely and then he would be welcomed back to the Dictatorship of Gloria, and then he would oh! she was sure he would drive back the invaders from the frontier, and she would be proud, oh! so proud, of that!
It is a peculiar test of a man's metal when, after he has painfully adjusted himself to what seems a wise provision, he finds all his mental precaution a little beside the mark, and his excellent intentions no better than miscalculated dovetails, accurately cut from a wrong starting-point. His magnanimity has got itself ready to meet misbehavior, and finds quite a different call upon it.
We were aware of him climbing over the noisome litter of the dead giant's body which blocked the tunnel's further end. We heard his astonished exclamations. But evidently he did not suspect what had happened, thinking only that the stupid messenger had miscalculated his growth and had been crushed. We emerged into a less dim area. Polter did not stop at the fallen giant.
The opera was Lucrezia Borgia. At the end of the first act she miscalculated the depth of the apron and the descending curtain left her outside on her knees. She had stiffness in her joints and was unable to rise without assistance.... This situation must have been very embarassing to a singer who previously had been an idol of the public.
But, unless he has miscalculated, there will be money enough to carry on the work of construction to advantage for the year. An appropriation sufficient to complete the buildings at once was thought by many to be the wisest economy, but big figures in an appropriation bill have very little chance this year.
The truth is, Palmerston, like other clever men before and since, miscalculated his strength, and on Christmas Eve was back again in office.
There is no need of our speculating as to what Mr. Byles Gridley, an honorable and humane man, would have done, or what would have been the nature of that communication which he offered as an alternative to the perplexed woman. He had not at any rate miscalculated the strength of his appeal, which Cynthia interpreted as he expected. She bore the heart-screw about two minutes.
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