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There was no such person as our General, but there may be lots of statues to him. There's certainly one. There's probably at least another. I should think the people of Bolivia are sure to have one. We'll ask Billing when we see him." "Is he the priest who mistook me for the Lord-Lieutenant?" "Oh, no. He's the swindler whom Doyle caught. By the way, here's Doyle coming out of the hotel again.
I directed my course to a distant mountain, due north from the camp, and travelled seven or eight miles over a large plain, which was composed of a rich dark soil, and clothed with a great variety of excellent grasses. We saw many columns of dust raised by whirlwinds; and again mistook them for the smoke of so many fires of the natives.
She rose from her bench and fell on her knees; and if she mistook the mingled feelings of penitence and human passion for pure devotion, she made the commonest mistake of enthusiastic spirits.
Wanaha mistook the look for one of pleasure, and went on accordingly, feeling that she had struck the right note. "Yes. And Seth, he love too. They are to each as the Sun and the Moon. But they not know this thing. She think Seth think she like sister. Like Black Fox and your Wana. But I know. I love my man, so I see with live eyes. Yes, these love. So."
The very servants delighted in waiting on her, though her requirements were numerous; but they did it all willingly, and put a great deal more heart into her service than they ever exhibited in obeying Elizabeth's moderate and reasonable requests. They mistook Mrs.
"I like this dark blue very much, Sir, and I thought Mamma would; but it's too high." "How much is it?" inquired he. "Fourteen shillings," replied Mr. Saunders. "He said it was two dollars!" exclaimed Ellen. "I beg pardon," said the crest-fallen Mr. Saunders "the young lady mistook me; I was speaking of another piece when I said two dollars."
She drew her hand away with a little cry of surprise. She was pleased, yet he mistook her expression. He flushed and, confused, drew back. "I I didn't mean it," he said, as though apologizing for his gallantry. The girl's eyes dilated for an instant. Then she laughed with all the joyous abandon of youth and absolute health. "You get worse and worse," she said, teasingly.
Perhaps, in truth, a sentiment had sprung up in her breast when she heard of my disappearance, which she mistook for love. But surely the impulse that sent her to Castle Yard was not the same as that Comyn had depicted: it was merely the survival of the fancy of a little girl in a grass-stained frock, who had romped on the lawn at Carvel Hall.
He was now returned to a sense of his danger, and endeavoured to escape to the exterior part of the ruin; but terror bewildered his senses, and he mistook his way. Instead of regaining the arch-way, he perplexed himself with fruitless wanderings, and at length found himself only more deeply involved in the secret recesses of the pile.
This he never allowed at his table; and, turning to her, he said gently, but firmly: "Maria, don't you think you'd better go up-stairs and go to bed?" "He's all the time thinkin' I'm a child," said Miss Maria, with a grin; "but how awfully he's mistook." Then she added: "Has that teacher got money enough to support a wife when he marries her? I don't suppose his salary amounts to much.
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