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I smiled.—There was something either in that smile or the recollections it awakened that was particularly displeasing to her, for she suddenly assumed again that proud, chilly look that had so unspeakably roused my aversion at church—a look of repellent scorn, so easily assumed, and so entirely without the least distortion of a single feature, that, while there, it seemed like the natural expression of the face, and was the more provoking to me, because I could not think it affected.
But now, on the very day when his brother's marriage to another woman had consummated his brother's treason towards her, there was something vaguely repellent in the prospect of seeing him. 'He says, he's going away, my dear; and he only wants to shake hands, and say good-bye. This plain statement of the case had its effect. Agnes decided on receiving her cousin.
It was a repellent street; it was out even of the little world where sordidness is at any rate dignified by tradition and anaemic ideals can support each other in close companionship. It had neither a past nor a future. The steep end of it was an horizon of cloud. The April east wind blew the smoke of Hanbridge right across it.
God was too dim, too nebulous, for Hollister's need. Friendship was almost unattainable. How could a man with a face so mutilated that it was grotesque, repellent, cultivate the delicate flower of friendship? Doris loved him because she could not see him. When she could see, she would cease to love. And there would be nothing left for him nothing.
In the first place, so much more, as a rule, is heard of vice than of virtue. “La voix de la beauté parle bas: elle ne s’insinue que dans les âmes les plus éveillées.” Then the standard of life in those days was very different from what it is to-day. Manners and customs which were accepted facts of everyday life then, would strike us as strangely rude and repellent now.
I felt faint and giddy, as though some exhalation from the graveyard not wholly repellent, but sickly, overpowering, like the scent of a hothouse lily had been suddenly wafted under my nostrils. I fell back a pace as the negress motioned me away. Her hand pointed across the stream, and across the meadow, to the gap in the ridge. "Fast as you can run," she panted; "and never come this way again."
If the Donnellys had sometimes found the practical equality of life in Londongrove a little repellent they were now gratefully moved by the delicate and refined ways in which the sympathy of the people sought to express itself. The better qualities of human nature always develop a temporary good-breeding.
Once, when a particularly repellent statuette of a nude female with an unwholesome green skin had been offered at two dollars and had found no bidders the congregation appearing silently grateful for his statement that it was the only specimen of its kind on the continent he had specifically accused them of having come into the auction room merely with the purpose of sitting down and taking the weight off their feet.
He, too, was aware that a needless and repellent memory had been added to their lives. "Oh, everything's my own fault I know that. You are never to blame for anything!" "Did I ask you to go there? did I?" But she only laughed in reply, through and through hostile to him; and they walked for some distance in silence.
But with a sudden idea that a general address on behalf of a particular demand must necessarily fail, he let his eyes rest on one there, whose face was neither stupid nor repellent, and who, though he did not look up, had an attentive, thoughtful cast about the mouth. 'May I entreat a word apart with you, sir? Evan was not mistaken in the index he had perused.
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