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Updated: June 14, 2025
Need any thing more be advanced than these facts, to prove, that it is not school, or the acquirement of knowledge, that is disagreeable to children, but the system of injudicious instruction there pursued.
"Well, madam, I deeply regret all that has passed, and deplore that my friends and part of my family should be disagreeable to you; I take upon myself to engage that their hostility shall end, and am willing to afford you the most perfect satisfaction upon this point.
The conjunction of amiability and sense in the same individual renders that individual's position in a world like us very disagreeable. Amiability without sense, or sense without amiability, runs along smoothly enough. The former takes things as they are.
The official had no more to say. Only it was with a further and most unbelieving shrug of the shoulders that he resumed his seat. "You will be so good as to leave us your correct name and address, mademoiselle," he said curtly. "You have them both," Anna answered. He opened the door for her with a faint disagreeable smile.
The last could not fail to awaken many disagreeable feelings of remorse and of shame: It was a kind of punishment to all who had in any way joined in that horrid event. At Aix, the solemn ceremony was repeatedly interrupted by the noise of the military. We remarked one man in particular, who continued laughing, and beating his musket on the ground.
They have flat noses and large mouths, and their lips bulge out in a way rendered the more disagreeable as they are always black and dirty from the habit indulged in, by men and women alike, of chewing areca nut mixed with betel and lime.
It was better to hurry over the bared plain towards the shining goal than to stumble and be deterred amid these snares of old memories, habits, affections, and gratitudes. The past the past was man's enemy. He was committed to the future, and in order to serve that strong master there was work disagreeable work to be done in the present. Ingratitude! that, too, was but a word, though a long one.
"Her Spanish accent troubled her for a year or two longer," added I; "strictly speaking, this accent, derived from the Italian, has nothing disagreeable in it; while the English, Polish, Russian, and German accent is inharmonious in itself, and is lost with great difficulty here."
Why must there be rich and poor?" etc., etc. "Dear Petrea!" said Louise, "what use can there be in asking those questions?" It was an evening for questions; they did not end even when the company had broken up. "Don't you think, Elise," said the Lagman to his wife when they were alone, "that our little Petrea begins to be disagreeable with her continual questioning and disputing?
We remained thus sad and silent till the return of the duke and Donna Lucrezia, who was the only one to keep her head cool. "Dear Leonilda," said she, "you must be let into the secret of this disagreeable mystery, and your mother is the proper person to enlighten you. Do you remember what name my late husband used to call you when he petted you?" "He used to call me his charming Giacomina."
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