Probably there was no malice in Melchior, but Jean-Christophe, on the watch, read hidden meanings into every word, and almost he thought himself guilty.
He thought himself persecuted, and took on the airs of a misunderstood genius.
Lady Kew announcing that she was out of town, her grandson, no doubt, thought himself justified in saying so, as any other of her servants would have done.
He had orders for yet more pictures, and having worked very hard, thought himself authorised to accompany Mr. Clive upon a pleasure-trip to Naples, which the latter deemed necessary after his own tremendous labours.
All which he spoke of with an unconcernedness scarce to be conceived, and as it were rather out of curiosity than that he thought himself in any danger of eternal punishment hereafter.
These had the worst effect upon him imaginable, for they so far puffed him up, that he thought himself worthier of command than most of the officers on the ship, and therefore was not a little uneasy at being obliged to obey them.
Veli had been obliged, or thought himself obliged, to evacuate Lepanto by superior forces, and brought only discouraging news, especially as to the wavering fidelity of the Turks.
He has assured me that many people thought, and that he thought himself, that I was not my own mistress; this is doubtless because I had rejected the conditions he offered me.
His correspondents told him that, if he was really as ill as he thought himself, he would do well to consult the physicians and surgeons of the capital.
And Camusot drank, all unsuspicious, for he thought himself, in his own way, a match for a journalist.
The first blow was the heaviest and the most keenly felt, for it touched Lucien where he thought himself invulnerable--in his heart and his love.
He promised to keep all secrecy in the matter, and said he thought himself fortunate to be placed with me.
My nice companion who had hitherto only spoken to back up the gondoliers, thought himself bound to offer me his consolations.
The caliph having satisfied his curiosity, thought himself obliged to shew his generosity to the calender princes, and also to give the three ladies some proof of his bounty.
He, therefore, thought himself authorized to observe this rule, and accordingly gave a keg of spirits and some tobacco.
Whether he thought himself neglected in not being invested with the government of the country he had discovered, or felt unwilling that another should share in the honors of future discoveries, cannot now be determined.
By this offer he thought himself insulted, and sent a message to the Queen that he was too old for the place.
In what he thought himself an imitator of Shakespeare it is not easy to conceive.
No one can read the letter to his wife, written from Algiers when he thought himself in danger of death, without a warm feeling for so unselfish and affectionate a nature.
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