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Many and disastrous months were yet to elapse, before the letters of the Orleans Princes could tear away the curtain of mystery and show the official action in its naked deformity of malice and misjudgment. McClellan had left Manassas with a gallant army of immense force, whose numbers had no doubt been all the while exaggerated to the popular ear.
If one suffers loss through his own misjudgment, incapacity, or want of care, then, whatever the precepts of other virtues may require, we do not feel that justice requires us to bear any part of that loss. On the contrary, we feel instinctively that he should bear the loss alone, that it is the natural penalty for his lack of judgment, capacity, or care.
In the house of our boyhood, of our earliest play and quarrels, unchanged and unchangeable, knowing simply that I had "come home again to her," our mother waited.... I need not elaborate this for you, you for whom England and our mother win almost a single, undivided love. I had misjudged, but the cause of my misjudgment was thus suddenly removed.
Perhaps something had turned up at last to prove to the Sark men their misjudgment! Perhaps well, any way, it was good to be left alone. He lay there, laxed with the over-strain of all this upsetting, but rejoicing placidly in this one more day of life. He felt like one granted a day's respite as he stands on the scaffold with the rope round his neck. Never had the sun shone so brightly.
His father, who observed Jacob closely, remonstrated with him occasionally as the boy advanced towards manhood; but Jacob put on an independent air, and replied that he went on the principle of being right with himself. "You can't," he would say, "keep free from misjudgment, do what you will. Men are always more inclined to think evil of each other than good. I do nothing that I'm ashamed of."
This failure to be understood, this misjudgment of actions, motives, deeds, are doubtless common evils from which, in a measure, we all must suffer.
Percival, across the room, listened to Mrs. Akemit's artless disclosure that she found life too complex far too hazardous, indeed, for a poor little creature in her unfortunate position, so liable to cruel misjudgment for thoughtless, harmless acts, the result of a young zest for life. She had often thought most seriously of a convent, indeed she had "and, really, Mr.
Most of these attributes can be summed up under one heading that of extreme sensitiveness and susceptibility, which meet with no response or sustainment, but rather with misjudgment, repulse, and outrage.
He left no room for misjudgment." "But you said that he had died hating her." "He did, as far as we know. He gave no sign to the contrary." "But does she, Lady Dawn, think that?" "Think that he hated her?" "No, that he died hating her?" Maisie picked up a cigarette from the table and looked to Tabs for a match. She was getting bored. "Why, certainly.
Once or twice I've been the victim of misjudgment, and got a heavy slap on the face from angelic hands that ought to 'ave known better, but on the 'ole I'm willin' to take my chance." "Not a bad notion," remarked the Slogger; "especially for a pretty little chap like you, Robin."
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