misleadings

Updated: May 18, 2025

"My father," he resumed timidly, "permit me to try, not to exculpate myself, but to tell you how, from involuntary misleadings, I have reached, almost in spite of myself, actions infamous I acknowledge." The viscount took the silence of his father for a tacit consent, and continued: "When I had the misfortune to lose my mother my poor mother, who loved me so well I was not twenty.

Eugène Sue - Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02

Now, though prostrated on her bed, she rejoices in the double forgiveness of her husband and her priest, blessing him for deliverance from the misleadings of one who great God! must I write it? might at last have dragged her into crime. It is her request, as it is my command, that you darken our threshold no more, and that as far as practicable you keep yourself from her sight. Faithfully,

George Washington Cable - Bylow Hill