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'Doucement doucement! said my uncle, with a smile at once amused and compassionate. 'Doucement! ma chère. With great hands and cunning eyes uplifted, Madame tearfully for her tears came on short notice again protested her absolute innocence. She had never in all her life so much as heard one so villain phrase. 'You see, my dear, you have misheard; young people never attend.
It seemed to her to be of the highest importance that those appealing eyes should not appeal in vain. "Item, he made a fearful fuss about you and me being at the cinema last night." "I should like to know what it's got to do with him!" said Rachel, almost savagely. The word "item" puzzled her. Not understanding it, she thought she had misheard.
I do not like even to inhale their breath; alas! that I have lived so long among their noise and bad breaths! O blessed stillness around me! O pure odours around me! How from a deep breast this stillness fetcheth pure breath! How it hearkeneth, this blessed stillness! But down there there speaketh everything, there is everything misheard.
She told me that she loved him still. One never comes to understand a woman!" "For they are blest that have not much to rue That have not oft misheard the prompter's cue." The gale was apparently at its height that is to say, it was blowing harder than it had blown all through the night.
Nearly all copyists have committed errors of judgment or accidental errors. Errors of judgment when half-educated and not wholly intelligent copyists have thought it their duty to correct passages and words in the original which they could not understand. Accidental errors when they misread while copying, or misheard while writing from dictation, or when they involuntarily made slips of the pen.
In 1781 he published another volume of his poems with a poetical preface, in which he thus attacks his brother-in-law: 'To suits litigious, ignorant and raw, Compell'd by an unletter'd brother-in-law. Ib. 1781, p. 227. Boswell must have misheard what Johnson said. It was not Anson, but Amherst whom the bard praised. Ode, p. 7. Johnson wrote to Mrs.
The listener outside misheard this speech thus: 'You will be glad of a companion whilst I am away. I will go up to town to-morrow and see Miss Perzio. He ground his teeth, and clenched his hands, and held himself in resolute silence, fighting against the instinct which prompted him to cry aloud and dash in upon the two, and either slay them both, or sell his own life, then and there.
"Thou hast misheard my words, lord. Knowing by hearsay of thy hatred of women, I entered thy house as dancer before thee, to gain as my reward one hour of speech with thee." "Speech? Wherefore? "Because I would help thee, and in helping thee help myself." Clasping her slender jewelled hands, across her bosom, she looked up to the gilded ceiling, and sighing softly, whispered: "I love!" "Thou!"
She stood still beside Karen, her bleak, intense old gaze fixed on the sea. Karen thought that she had misheard her last words. "When Tante is about?" she repeated. "You mean that dreadful things happen to her? That is one of the worst parts of it now, Mrs. Talcott only that I am so selfish that I do not think of it enough to know that I have added to Tante's troubles." "No." Mrs.
I saw what was coming; I was troubled and ashamed. All those are words which my secretary substituted; or mayhap he misheard me or forgot what I said." She did not look at me when she said it: she spared me that embarrassment. I hadn't misheard her at all, and hadn't forgotten.
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