21. Siquijor's long-time reputation as a place of magic and sorcery both attracts and repulses visitors. 22. Her dying sister does so, but the taste of the fruit repulses her rather than satisfies her hunger. 23. By continually attacking while shrugging off frequent repulses , the French wore out their enemies rather than defeating them. 24. They find a mass grave of Mogs and garde human which repulses them all and steels their drives to end this. 25. By 4 p . m ., Breckinridge's first two brigades assaulted Hazen in piecemeal attacks and suffered heavy repulses . 26. Paternus now displays how Laurence's condition repulses him and expresses his regret that Laurence will never father a male heir. 27. Justin angrily repulses his parent, now called Julia but Veronica comforts him with tales of her own long-lost mother. 28. Vitaliano begs Arianna for one kind look before he dies, but Arianna repulses him and orders him to prison to await his execution. 29. Daniel, in the meantime, is attracted to his cousin Nicole ( the daughter of No�mie ), but she repulses his advances. 30. Another person Melvin repulses is Simon ( Greg Kinnear ), a gay artist who lives across the hall from him in an upscale apartment building.