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Why won't you credit what I say? 'I don't urge you I never have to reveal that which you describe so strangely as a concealment, yet no secret; as an absurdity, and yet fraught with miserable suspense. 'Ah, Dorcas, why will you misconstrue me? Why will you not believe me?
He might misconstrue my motive oh, you understand, don't you? I'm sure I'm in an extremely delicate position." He nodded sagely. "Nevertheless," he pursued, "he will be under obligation to you." "He will never know it. I depend upon you to keep my secret. He will think himself under obligation to you and you're such an old and dear friend.
Yes there were phrases in it that a wounded suspicious heart might misconstrue.... Yet Bessy's last words had absolved her.... Why had she not answered them? Why had she stood there dumb? The blow to her pride had been too deep, had been dealt too unexpectedly for one miserable moment she had thought first of herself!
"Mistress?" gasped Baldos, his eye blazing, his arm half raised. "Count Marlanx!" implored Beverly, drawing herself to her full height and staring at him like a wounded thing. "I humbly implore you not to misconstrue the meaning of the term, your highness," said the Count affably, "Ah, you have dropped something. Permit me. It is a note of some description, I think."
He put his hands upon her shoulders and looked down into the beautiful, upturned face, a genuinely serious note creeping into his voice when he spoke again. "Don't misconstrue my light-heartedness, dearest. It's a habit with me, not a fault. I see the serious side to your affair as you view it. You have promised to marry Vos Engo. You'll have to break that promise. He didn't save me.
Others may misconstrue my actions; you, at least, shall know from what just principle they spring. There was a man whom I singled out of the world as more than a brother. In the romance of my boyhood I saw one who dazzled my fancy, captivated my heart. It was a dream of Beauty breathed into waking life. I loved, I believed myself beloved.
"Let bygones be forgotten, Dexie; it is poor policy to remember old scores too long. It is enough that there will never be any more business relations between us. His stay in town is likely to be short, so there is no fear that he will trouble any of us long." "Well, I hope you will be careful, and not say anything that he can misconstrue into an invitation to remain with us overnight.
For shortly to say the truth, these folk falsely accuse and slander all our doings; yea the same things which they themselves cannot deny but to be rightly and orderly done; and for malice do so misconstrue and deprave all our sayings and doings, as though it were impossible that anything could be rightly spoken or done by us.
The canting phrases wearied Kirkwood; abruptly he cut in. "Would a sovereign help you out, Mr. Calendar? I don't mind telling you that's about the limit of my present resources." "Pardon me." Mr. Calendar's moon-like countenance darkened; he assumed a transparent dignity. "You misconstrue my motive, sir." "Then I'm sorry." "I am not here to borrow.
But you will not misconstrue me. I know that we must keep apart for a long while; cruel tongues would force us apart, if nothing else did. But I shall not go away. The place where you are is the one where my mind must live, wherever I might travel. And remember that I am unchangeably yours, yours not with selfish wishes, but with a devotion that excludes such wishes.
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