Both Uses of
surmise
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- This much Marguerite had fully understood from the first, and Sir Andrew Ffoulkes had confirmed her surmises.†
Chpt 23 *
- What has procured me the honour of being followed across the Channel by so charming a companion, I cannot, of course, conceive, but, if I mistake it not, the purpose of this flattering attention is not one that would commend itself to my vanity and I think that I am right in surmising, moreover, that the first sound which your pretty lips would utter, as soon as the cruel gag is removed, would be one that would prove a warning to the cunning fox, which I have been at such pains to track to his lair.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
to guess something is true or form an opinion based on incomplete evidence