Music was the passion of the man; and a millionaire's passion is something that can make a stir.

He knew that in Emilia he had discovered a pearl of song rarely to be found, and his object was to polish and perfect her at all cost: perhaps, as a secondary and far removed consideration, to point to her as a thing belonging to him, for which Emperors might envy him.

The thought of losing her drove him into fits of rage.

He took the ladies one by one, and treated them each to a horrible scene of gesticulation and outraged English.

H accused their brother of conduct which they were obliged to throw (by a process of their own) into the region of Fine Shades, before they dared venture to comprehend him.