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I felt sorry overmuch to hear this, nor could I see why my new aunt should care if I went in once in a while, as had been my habit, to talk to the swallows and misplace nothing. But Mrs. Montressor saw to it that I obeyed her, and I went no more to the Red Room, but busied myself with other matters. For there were great doings at the Place and much coming and going.
"I've gone and misplaced my glasses and I can't hardly see," answered Miss Amanda in her sweet little quaver that sounded like a silver bell with a crack in it. "Lend me your'n, Tucker!" "You are a-going to misplace your eyes some day, Sister Amandy.
Teddy junior, it was observed, after his day with Harry, developed a slight tendency to misplace the letter "h" in his conversation, but it was soon corrected, and things ran smoothly as of yore. Only the Only being the natural sequence of the But referred to some time since Mr. and Mrs.
Houston asked the question with a dullness that caused the aged trapper to turn almost angrily upon him. "How? Is eet putty that you are made of? Is eet but no, Ba'teese, he, what-you-say, misplace his head. You think there is no chance, eh? Mebbe not. Me'bbe " "I found a copy of that contract in our files. The clerk I had in the office was in the conspiracy.
Perversion of the tactile sense, or wrong reference to the sensation of pain, has occasionally been noticed. The Ephemerides records a case in which there was the sense of two objects from a single touch on the hypochondrium. Weir Mitchell remarks that soldiers often misplace the location of pain after injuries in battle. He also mentions several cases of wrong reference of the sensation of pain.
The poor child always distrusted her generous impulses. She thought it cleverer to withhold trust from everybody, lest she misplace it in somebody. At length an imp of perversity taught her how to get rid of the credit she owed to Charity. She spoke after a long silence. "Mrs. Cheever must be horribly fond of you." "Why do you say that?" said Jim, startled. "Because she's so nice to me."
I durst not take a pin or a stick, though but so big as a straw, for my conscience now was sore and would smart at every touch. I could not now tell how to speak my words for fear I should misplace them." "The highest flames," says Jeremy Taylor in his Life of Christ, "are the most tremulous." "But when he was come at the river where was no bridge, there, again, Mr. Fearing was in a heavy case.
"It's all the same." Yet he felt a little surprise. "But the letter from 'Slim's' sister, and the picture I want them, too." "I'm sorry," Sprudell frowned in perplexity, "but they've been mislaid. I can't think where I put them, to save my soul." "How could you misplace them?" Bruce demanded sharply. "You kept them all together, didn't you? I wanted that picture."
Carmena's eyes flashed. "No. They shall not make another drop of poison in that devilpot. But if we blew it up now, Slade will put the blame on us Tell you what I'll just misplace the key. That will give us time to act after Slade comes." "Have I your promise you will not try to get him into that death trap?" "Yes." Back in the living room they became aware that the day was almost gone.
"I came in here because our room is full of clothes, spread out ready to wear. They're all over the room, mine on one side and Joyce's on the other. I was so afraid I'd forget and flop down on them, or misplace something, that I came in here to read awhile. It makes the afternoon go faster. Seems to me it never will be time to dress."
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