Gradually, however, as time passed, this feeling grew insensibly less; so that when, a few days later, the thought occurred to me that it might be possible to clamber down and have a look into the hole, I was not so exceedingly averse to it, as might have been imagined.

And so it is that the superior man is averse from settling in this sink, into which everything runs that is foul in the empire.

Although there is no duty to which seamen are so averse as pumpingnone, perhaps, that is actually so exhausting and laboriousit often happens that they have recourse to it with eagerness, as the only available means of saving their lives.

Restive under any save military discipline, averse by temperament and custom to studies of any sort, it was hardly to be hoped that they would easily exchange their gay, idle habits for schoolroom tasks under a foreign pedagogue.