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I wore the passion out. The thought of anything of that sort horrifies me. I can't look at you now without thinking of Emil and Griffiths. One can't help those things, I suppose it's just nerves." She seized his hand and covered it with kisses. "Don't," he cried. She sank back into the chair. "I can't go on like this. If you won't love me, I'd rather go away."
The Lenox will take longer; they're a 'holier-than-thou' bunch of nincompoops, and it always horrifies them to have any man elected, no matter who he is. They'd rather die of dry rot than elect anybody; it shocks them to think that any man could have the presumption to be presented.
He came with a huge bolster in a cab, as though out of the past and nowhere. There is a tradition, a book tradition, that the boy apprenticed to the sea acquires saucy eyes, and a self-reliance always ready to dare to that bleak extreme the very thought of which horrifies those who are lawful and cautious. They know better who live where the ships are.
What really horrifies the popular mind at the thought of women in politics, is the picture of woman as a "practical politician;" giving her time to it as a business, and making money by it, in questionable, or unquestionable, ways; and, further, as a politician in office, as sheriff, alderman, senator, judge.
I explained in the earlier part of my remarks that we have a case here of the thing that horrifies rhetoricians, but does not matter a bit to a prophet, the blending or confusing of two metaphors. The first of them 'I have blotted out' suggests a piece of writing, a book, or manuscript of some sort.
The scrape into which Dick had got himself could not really be as serious as her father imagined, since the grandfather of the culprit had spoken of it so lightly and, in any case, the crime of forgery never horrifies a woman as do the supposedly meaner crimes of other theft and of violence.
The boy or the girl who does not at an early age announce what he or she intends to be when 'grown up, must be a somewhat extraordinary child. The peer's son horrifies his nurse by declaring that he intends to be an engine-driver when he is 'grown up, and the postman's wife hears with not a little amusement that her boy has decided to be Lord Mayor of London.
Until now, my house has been the whole of Paris to this poor woman; and the thought of flinging her alone into the gulf, of which she knows nothing, horrifies me.
"Ah, papa! you would never say that if you knew how how I love him," she murmured, a deep blush suffusing her face. "Hush! it horrifies me to hear you speak so of so vile a wretch, a drinking, swearing gambler, swindler, and rake; for I have learned that he is all these." "Papa, it is not true!
Of course during their engagement he frequently slips back into the old path, sometimes has a downfall that shocks and horrifies her who would reform him, but, once more trimming and turning up the wick, she bathes him in the pink light and remembers that he is not yet as entirely under her influence as he will be some day.
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