That was something much more important than his disinclination to DC with the Knippel boys.

" Carlyle had the natural disinclination of every nimble spirit to bruise itself against walls, and did not like to place himself where no step can be taken; but he was honest and true, and cognizant of the subtile links that bind ages together, and saw how every event affects all the future.

Having remained a considerable time in the hall where the trial was going on, the agonized state of the prisoner and sickening details of the murder caused a disinclination for the present to continue my perambulations, so I stepped into the Café de l'Independence, in Broadway, and called for a port-wine sangaree, endeavouring, while I sipped it, smoked a cigar, and read the Courier and Inquirer, to forget the scene I had just witnessed.

One cannot help occasional disinclination on a lazy evening, confound it!

Nor was this disinclination towards personal interviews confined to this dayit continued; and it seemed as if he also wished his connection with her to stand in the meantime upon the pledges and confessions already made.

Dark hours of conflict were spent over all this, and she interpreted her disinclination as evidence of unworthiness.

I said nothing of my determination to that effect, feeling a strange disinclination toward owning it, though I persisted in repeating it to myself.