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"She's Chinese," he said indifferently, "and that means yellow." Nettie made a gesture of distaste. "They seem to get along well enough. Of course, it's ridiculous to call it a marriage, and it seems to me very questionable to impose it on the Ammidons as that. The thing is how long will it last, how soon will he get tired of her and send her back to Canton?"
Memories took the place of anticipation, and through their moody shiftings he began to feel a distaste for the company of his friends and a shrinking from their lively voices. He blamed them for this at once. He was surprised to think he had never recognized before how light a weight was Shorty; and here was Chalkeye, who knew better, talking religion after two glasses.
What a speech was this to endure from such a fellow, to be sure! and Barnaby so high in his own esteem, and holding himself a gentleman! Well, what with his distaste for the villain, and what with such odious familiarity, you can guess into what temper so impudent an address must have cast him.
After a moment she added, "This psycho-analysis, Neville," saying the word with distaste indeed, but so much more calmly than usual that Neville looked at her in surprise. "This psycho-analysis. I suppose it does make wonderful cures, doesn't it, when all is said?" "Cures oh yes, wonderful cures. Shell-shock, insomnia, nervous depression, lumbago, suicidal mania, family life anything."
England, with its freer and happier political conditions, was the best place for the accomplishment of both ends, and Locke, a typically healthy and sober English thinker, with a distaste for extreme views, the best adapted mind.
The final fact that had taken him from the setting of so many of his years had been the increasing expense of a discriminating existence in New York. Again his distaste for anything short of absolute nicety had dictated the form and conditions of his living.
So here was he, burning with desire to assure her of his devotion, forced into silent pact with the very conspiracy she was denouncing. She attributed his sudden gruffness to a distaste for hearing his exploits lauded. "At any rate, you now understand my motive for speaking so plainly, Mr. Royson," she went on.
She stopped under the black branches of a tree, and waited with pity and fright in her soul. He said: "I forgive you and forget everything. Take me back. I will promise never to say a word of the past." She shuddered, and made a movement of surprise and distaste so natural that he stopped. Then, after a moment of reflection: "My proposition to you is not an ordinary one, I know it well.
"What a life for an intelligent woman!" she thought, glancing about her with deep distaste. "It would be enough to induce melancholia without the 'taint." She had made a desperate effort in the last twenty-four hours to overcome her repugnance, but had only succeeded in making sure that she could conceal it. She had recalled her interview with Senator North again and again.
"I know she's as good as gold. And she'd be as strong as iron if she was married and had children. I've seen no end of women like that, and I'm not sure they don't make the best wives and mothers. I told your father that. But it's no good trying to tell him the truth." "No. It's the one thing he can't stand." "He seems," said Rowcliffe, "to have such an extraordinary distaste for the subject.
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