l. 7. B by mistake omits]

Mistakes men may commit, and defeats they may undergo, and yet lose nothing that concerns their character for acting as men of a high standard ought to act.

From a similar mistake hundreds have deceived themselves in trying to catch the trick of phrase peculiar tn some distinguished contemporary.

Pray are you growing spiteful, like Mrs. Leith Fairfax?" "Marian: you got out of bed at the wrong side this morning; and you have made that mistake oftener since your return from Sark than in all your life before.

You did not seem to think it a mistake thenat least you hid it very well, if you did"(then going on quickly, seeing that he is about to interrupt me)"have you been comparing notes, pray?

But here he made mistake number two; for the ball did not curve as the pitcher had intended, but gave the batter a sharp nip just where it said it would.

There are excuses for the fault; the young of all ranks naturally enough mistake noise for awfulness, and violence for strength; and there is generally but too much, in the biographies of these working poets, to explain, if not to excuse, a vein of bitterness, which they certainly did not learn from their master, Burns.