"You might learn to bear the smell."
"The ordeal would be too wasteful of life."
"I don't see——"
"No one can afford a disagreeable breakfast, Robert. It spoils the whole day. And I might waste weeks and months trying to like the odor of boiled salt herring, and never succeed—it is sickening to me."
"It does not make me sick. I have had a boiled salt herring to breakfast ever since I was seven years old."
"You have learned to bear them."
"I like them."
"Did you like them at first?"
"No, but I was made to eat them until at last I learned to relish them. Mother believed them to be good for me. Now, I do not think my breakfast perfect without a boiled salt herring."
"We can force nature to take, and even enjoy poisons like whiskey and opium, but I think such an education sinful and unclean."