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Now, how do you pronounce it in New York? Miss De Voe put on that quiet, crushing manner she has when a man displeases her, and said, 'We never pronounce it in New York." "Good for our Dutch-Huguenot stock! I tell you, Peter, blood does tell." "It wasn't a speech I should care to make, because it did no good, and could only mortify.
Yes, decidedly low, this conduct! but low in the best sense of the word: nothing in it displeases me; I even consider Chrysantheme's affection for Bambou-San engaging and attractive in its simplicity.
You may apply the following test in order to find out. Does the temptation please or displease you? One of the ancient Fathers says that sins which displease us cannot harm us. How much less then displeasing temptations! Notice that, as long as the temptation displeases you there is nothing to fear, for why should it displease if not because your will does not consent to it?"
If a chief wishes to clear his house of hangers-on, he taboos it; if an English trader displeases him he is tabooed. His interdict has the effect of the old royal "veto." If an object is tabooed, no one can touch it with impunity. When a native is under the interdict, certain aliments are denied him for a prescribed period.
"I pray God you shall never have one," she vows. Both are exquisitely happy. Neither can say aught that displeases or hurts the other. For Esther it is the dawn the glorious sun rising out of a winter night. She never had a lover before. With George Harpwood it is the crowning of an edifice built with infinitely more pains than the David Lockwin Annex. The noise of all this is abroad.
"You weary me beyond endurance," she said, rudely. And with a gesture that increased the harshness of her words, she added: "If Courtornieu displeases you so much, there is nothing to prevent you from seeking a home more to your taste. You are free and of age." Aunt Medea turned very pale, and she bit her lips until the blood came.
"Yes," said I, "though whether it is your person, your manner, or your voice that displeases me most, I am unable to say." "An impertinent young jackanapes!" said he; "damnation, I think I'll pull your nose!" "Why, you may try, and welcome, sir," said I; "though I should advise you not, for should you make the attempt I should be compelled to throw you out of the window."
"Well, perhaps," said Rose, moving believe to examine Graeme critically; "still I must warn her against future possibilities as to stoutness and other things." "It is not the stoutness that displeases her, Fanny," said Graeme, laughing; "it is the middle-aged look that is settling down upon me, that she is discontented with." "Fanny," said Rose, "don't contradict her.
‘No, Arthur, it is not that that displeases me: it is the whole system of your conduct towards your friend, and if you wish me to forget it, go now, and tell him what sort of a woman it is that he adores so madly, and on whom he has hung his hopes of future happiness.’ ‘I tell you, Helen, it would break his heart—it would be the death of him—besides being a scandalous trick to poor Annabella.
Ef you mentions it, do; I is retermined to reny ebbery word of your ramification, and in dis here country a nigger's word, dey tells me, goes jus' as fur as a pore white gal's, if not furder; 'sides dat, I is gwine to swar favorable for my 'ployers, in course, at de court-house unless" hesitating and leering in my face "you sees, honey, dey have not paid me yit and mebbe dey won't, ef I displeases 'em, an' your gole watch is gone; an' den, Dinah would be lef' on de shelf."
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