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We returned to the living-room of the cottage, and talked of the matter while we had supper. I told Hugues everything, misrepresenting only so far as to make it appear that the Count's jealousy was still entirely unfounded, and that he had mistaken the Countess's feelings at our confrontation.
And if at any time an opponent charged me with misquoting his words, or with misrepresenting his meaning, I always accepted his corrections or explanations. Nor did I indulge in personal abuse. Nor did I lose my temper. I did my utmost to be just to all, and when I could not exhibit much esteem or love for an opponent, I tried to be respectful.
After this description of the main dramatic motive of the Ring, those if there are any now alive who are unfamiliar with the work may have no desire to see it, whilst those who know it may imagine that I am purposely misrepresenting it. I beg both classes of readers to be patient. If this were the whole Ring it would indeed be a barren, bleak and desolate affair.
Max Muller 'audaciously misrepresents' me when he avers that I 'call my savages primitive'? But he never dreamed of misrepresenting me; he only happened not to understand my position. My adversary next says that my 'savages are of the nineteenth century. It is of the essence of my theory that my savages are of many different centuries.
Still the Governor kept on representing that he was under the control of a mob; and another day of rejoicing gave him another opportunity of misrepresenting the people. This was the fourteenth of August, being the third celebration of the uprising against the Stamp Act.
These men had a fine faculty for misunderstanding, misinterpreting, and misrepresenting other people's thoughts. John Cotton tried to pour oil on the troubled waters by explaining that the idea of a Covenant of Grace was general, and to make it specific was unjust and unreasonable. Then they turned on Cotton and said, "So, you are one of them?" Anne Hutchinson was ordered not to speak in public.
Max Muller of consciously misrepresenting me. Of that I need not say that he is absolutely incapable. My argument merely took, in his consciousness, the form which is suggested in the passage cited from him. Tuna and Daphne To do justice to Mr. Max Muller, I will here state fully his view of the story of Tuna, and then go on to the story of Daphne.
"Begging your pardon, sir, it was Curtis that said so, though he knew she was in New York." "But what motive could he have had for thus misrepresenting matters?" "He doesn't want you to take her back." "I can't believe you, Mrs. Barnes. He loves her, and wants to marry her." "He couldn't marry her if she consented to take him." "Why not? Mrs. Barnes, you confuse me."
"Nay, but you have not yet told me when or where you last saw or heard of this remarkable pirate, who is so clever at representing other people; perhaps I should rather say misrepresenting them," said Montague, with a meaning smile. "I saw him no longer ago than this morning," replied Gascoyne, gravely.
Appropriating, in your simplicity, the property of others has gotten you into trouble. Misrepresenting facts, in your simple innocence, has damaged your reputation with the soulless usurper.
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