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"There is absolutely no objection except the one concerning her relations and that may be got over. Mother, you wish for my happiness: tell me that you will not disapprove." Lady Ashley got up from her basket chair, and laid her arms round Philip's neck. "My dear son," she said, "I will do my best. I wish for nothing but your happiness, and I should never think of trying to thwart your intentions.
He smoothed over this slip of the tongue by adding, "And, certainly, so I am! I disapprove of her excessive rigor; her conduct toward you does not meet with my full sanction." It was the unintentional expression of Madeleine's countenance, perhaps, which made Count Tristan remember that his own conduct had strongly resembled that of his mother.
Apply to my brother and explain my circumstances and my resolves to him? No, no: even if I told him all my grievances, which I should be very reluctant to do, he would be certain to disapprove of the step: it would seem like madness to him, as it would to my uncle and aunt, or to Milicent. No; I must have patience and gather a hoard of my own.
"Disapprove of your going to die? You shall not! And for me, too: for I guess all all is my fault!" "All is mine," said he quietly: "who was fool enough to fancy that I could forget you conquer my love for;" and at these words his whole voice and manner changed in an instant into wildest passion. "I must speak now and never more I love you still, fool that I am! Would God I had never seen you!
But the villagers could not be persuaded that the Dutch general would disapprove of what they had done, and Walter, finding his arguments of no avail, rode off with his men to the village they had left, an hour before; with the parting advice that, if they would not follow his counsel, they should, at any rate, place watchers that night on the roads towards Ginckle's camp, to bring them news of the approach of any body of the enemy's cavalry.
They were entreated to pay no heed to the "sweet singing of the royalists," who just then affected to disapprove of the practice adopted by the Spanish Inquisition, that they might more surely separate them from their friends. "Imitate not," said the magistrates of Brussels, "the foolish sheep who made with the wolves a treaty of perpetual amity, from which the faithful dogs were to be excluded."
She wondered what they would be like, and whether they would disapprove of her. They would if they believed she had been expelled from Dover and had broken Mamma's heart. All Mamma's friends thought that. She didn't mind going to Morfe so much. The awful thing was leaving Ilford. Ilford was part of Mark, part of her, part of her and Mark together.
Sit down here" pulling forward a big easy-chair "and for the rest of your visit let's behave as though we didn't heartily disapprove of one another." Magda sank into the chair with that supple grace of limb which made it sheer delight to watch her movements. "I never said I disapproved of you," she remarked.
And however much McLean's sound senses might disapprove of the whole fantastic affair and his sober judgment commend the workings of Providence, he loved his friend, and he feared that his friend loved this lost girl. He had to end love and hope and romance and implant a desperate grief.... He thought very steadily of Jinny Jeffries. He cleared his throat. "Jack, old man "
He knew his elders would disapprove of so reckless an undertaking as climbing about Old Daddy's Window, for in venturing toward its outer verge, a false step, a crumbling ledge, the snapping of a vine, would fling him down the sheer precipice into the depths below. His hankering for a pet owl had nevertheless brought him here more than once.
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