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Ye have given me fair warning and have used very plain speech, but I was wondering with myself all the time" and then as her mother waited and questioned her by a look "whether miscalling a man black with the shameful lies of his enemies is not the surest way to turn the heart of a woman towards him. But doubtless ye ken best."
And so it may be that the name Grindwell has originated among us Americans simply from miscalling or misspelling the foreign name of Grandville. I incline to think, however, that there is a better reason for the name.
"Ay, they would be for the killing of me, and I lay among the rafters, under the thatch of my mother's house, and listened to them miscalling me, the black killer the bloody man that had the black art and the evil eye; and it came over my heart to catch them by the hair, and pull them up to me as they were speaking, and let my black knife kiss their hearts.
You are too good to me. What am I to be complaining the beggarly orphan?" "Not that, my dear," she cried courageously, "not that! In this house, when my brothers' looks were at their blackest for you, there has always been goodwill and motherliness. But you must not be miscalling them that share our roof, the brothers of Dugald and of Jamie."
"I would hardly say so much," she answered, coldly; "for there have been tales some idle, some otherwise about him, but I think his friend should be last to hint at any scandal." Good heavens! here was a surprise for one who had no more notion of traducing his friend than of miscalling the Shorter Catechism. The charge stuck in my gizzard.
Take heed that thou use not unsavoury and unseemly words in thy chastising of them, as railing, miscalling, and the like this is devilish. Take heed that thou do not use them to many chiding words and threatenings, mixed with lightness and laughter. This will harden.
He knew her opinion of him, and would write, 'My ears tingled yesterday; I sair doubt she has been miscalling me again. But the more she miscalled him the more he delighted in her, and she was informed of this, and at once said, 'The scoundrel! If you would know what was his unpardonable crime, it was this: he wrote better books than mine.
As they spoke thus, Sir Gawain came upon them, and, miscalling Sir Launcelot traitor and coward, had almost ridden upon him before Launcelot could provide him of another horse.
"Bide still awhile hither cometh yon beefy fool back again so will I make show of miscalling ye till he be gone." The which he did forthwith, giving me "scurvy rogue" and the like. Now, lifting my head, whom should I behold but that same tall fellow had been my chief tormenter, and who now hasted over the green towards us.
"They told us we were planting too late, but the phlox has buds on it already. Come and see it." So they trooped down the new gray steps and strolled around the garden, Wade exhibiting proudly and miscalling everything, and Miss Mullett gently correcting him.
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