You had better have roused the fury of a wild beast.

Knowing what you know of him, why did you stay here, when he came in?
And, oh, why did I humiliate him in your presence?
Leave us, Mr.Gerard--pray, pray leave us, and don't come near this place again till father has got rid of him." Did she think I was to be so easily frightened as that?
My sense of my own importance was up in arms at the bare suspicion of it! "My dear child," I said grandly, "do you really suppose I am afraid of that poor wretch?
Am I to give up the pleasure of seeing you, because a mad fellow is simple enough to think you will marry him?
Absurd, Cristel--absurd!" The poor girl wrung her hands in despair.
"Oh, sir, don't distress me by talking in that way! Do please remember who you are, and who I am.

If I was the miserable means of your coming to any harm--I can't bear even to speak of it! Pray don't think me bold; I don't know how to express myself.

You ought never to have come here; you ought to go; you _must_ go!" Driven by strong impulse, she ran to the place in which I had left my hat, and brought it to me, and opened the door with a look of entreaty which it was impossible to resist.

It would have been an act of downright cruelty to persist in opposing her.