unamiable

But she did not want to appear unamiable and uninterested, so she had brought forth newspapers, which she spread upon the floor of the gallery, and under Madame Ratignolle’s directions she had cut a pattern of the impervious garment.

She displays, others think, “an unamiable Marie Antoinetteness by being stuck-up, by thinking I was above them.”

It was all a bit long-winded and loose-limbed, but not unamiable.

But she did not want to appear unamiable and uninterested, so she had brought forth newspapers, which she spread upon the floor of the gallery, and under Madame Ratig- nolle's directions she had cut a pattern of the impervious garment Robert was there, seated as he had been the Sunday before, and Mrs. Pontellier also occupied her former position on the upper step, leaning listlessly against the post Beside her was a box of bonbons, which she neld out at intervals to Madame Ratignolle.

It is the most frequent and most voluminous of the writers who unconsciously tell us the most about themselves; and who, with the pleasing exception of Jeffrey, show us the most of their unamiable sides.