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This simple woman no sooner heard her husband had been obliged to her guest than her eyes sparkled on him with a benevolance which is an emanation from the heart, and of which great and noble minds, whose hearts never dwell but with an injury, can have no very adequate idea; it is therefore no wonder that our hero should misconstrue, as he did, the poor, innocent, and ample affection of Mrs.
How might they not misconstrue his conduct and HERS! Perhaps something of this was visible in his face. "Come, old man," said the cheerful misogynist, with perfect innocence, "don't take it so hard. Some time in a man's life a woman's sure to get the drop on him, as I said afore, and this yer woman's got the drop on five of us! But hallo, Ned, old man what's the matter with your head?"
I looked at him with a feeling of wonder that any one could be so thoroughly disagreeable, so determined to look at everything from a wrong point of view, and then I laughed, for it seemed to be utterly absurd that he should misconstrue even that look, for he exclaimed viciously "That's right, grin away, my lad; but the day may come when you'll laugh the wrong side of your mouth."
He honoured his dead father, and was averse to telling the girl he loved that he had been found in a curious state in a West End street late at night. He was loyal to his poor father's memory, and, until he knew the actual truth, he did not intend that Dorise should be in a position to misconstrue the facts, or to misjudge. On the face of it, his father's death was exceedingly suspicious.
Oh, Ernest, were I what I was, in health, in pride, I might fear that, generous as you are, you would misconstrue my appeal; but that is now impossible. Our union never can take place, and my hopes bound themselves to one sweet and melancholy hope, that you will remove from my last hours the cold and dark shadow of your resentment. We have both been cruelly deceived and betrayed.
The vanity of wearing a uniform, that may have once been felt, was long ago threadbare as the coat itself; and yet I was not wanting in friends, who fancied that it might still exist! How little understood they the real state of the case, and how much did they misconstrue my involuntary motives! It was just to escape from such unpleasant associations, that I held on to my "scrip."
You are so very dear to us that we wish to cherish always your good opinion of us; we want everybody in Port Agnew to think of you as we do. People will misunderstand and misconstrue your loyalty to the old friends of your boyhood if you dare admit your friendship. Indeed, some have already done so.
"Not in this one, I hope," he replied, following her to an inner room. "It is about a paragraph not yet published, which might be misconstrued." "Oh, I don't think any one could possibly misconstrue it," she retorted, with a flash of wicked mirth. "You know the paragraph to which I refer, then." "I wrote it." Banneker regarded her with grave and appreciative urbanity.
Do you suppose, if I could have found fifteen years ago the woman to have made me happy, I should have spent so much time in seeking distraction?" "Perhaps you could not have been capable of appreciating her fifteen years ago," suggested Honora. And, lest he might misconstrue her remark, she avoided his eyes. "Perhaps," he admitted.
Of course it is a delicate matter I can readily understand, as he says, how the public would misconstrue the Doctor's words and apply them generally forgetting that each case requires a different point of view.
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