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"I don't know," says the professor, who indeed has had little knowledge of either for years, and whose unlucky answer arises solely from inability to give her an honest reply. "You hesitate," says she, "you disapprove then. But," defiantly, "I don't care a concert is not like a ball." "No I suppose not!" "I can see what you are thinking," returns she, struggling with her mortification.
Mr. Herrick, however, does not disapprove such instincts for their own sake. He sees in them an element furnishing mankind with one of its valuable sources of stability. What he assails is a national conception which endows women with these instincts in mean, trivial, unenlightened forms.
People would stare with disapproval in Honolulu to see a woman riding with both legs on the same side of a horse, and those wandering abroad in the voluminous folds of two spacious garments disapprove the unusual and unseemly spectacle.
I advise you to listen to her no more than you can help. What was it she told you?" Miss Travers smiled roguishly: "Why should you want to know, Kate, if you disapprove of her revelations?" "Oh," with visible annoyance, "it is to I wanted to know so as to let you see that it was something unfounded, as usual."
Obediently Bertram asked all the question she could think of, then came back to his wife. There was nothing in his report that even Billy could disapprove of, or worry about; and with almost a contented look on her face she turned toward the stage as the curtain went up on the second act. "I love this balcony scene," she sighed happily.
"I strongly disapprove of her, Charles. Either her hair is dyed or her eyes are blackened; that mixture is not natural, and if, indeed, it should be in this case then I consider it uncanny and not what one would wish for in the family." "Oh, I say, my lady!" objected Lord Charles, "I think she is the most stunning-looking young woman I've seen in a month of Sundays!"
If you disapprove of them, I shall have no more fellowship with them." "That is going quite too far, Mr. Marshall. A man should never give up anything that he does not disapprove of himself." "Not to please somebody he wishes to please?" "Of course," I said, thinking of Mr. Thorold, "there might be such cases. But in general." "This is one of the cases. I wish to please you."
But many things go on that I disapprove of; and I tell you very candidly that, were I to become master to-morrow, my first act would be to displace you, unless you could undertake to give up these nasty acts of petty oppression." "Unless some of 'em was oppressed and kept under, they'd be for riding roughshod over the whole of us," retorted Roy. "Nonsense!" said Lionel.
The rest were banditti, whose violence and licentiousness the Government affected to disapprove, but did not really exert itself to suppress. The Protestants not only were not protected, but were not suffered to protect themselves. It was determined that they should be left unarmed in the midst of an armed and hostile population.
I wish I could make out what Randal advises. He seems to recommend that I should marry Beatrice at once, and trust to my mother's influence to make all right afterwards. But when I ask, 'Is that your advice? he backs out of it. Well, I suppose he is right there. I can understand that he is unwilling, good fellow, to recommend anything that my father would disapprove. But still "
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