True, without any consideration for the girl's presence, he sometimes asked Gitta why they still burdened themselves with the useless hobbler and did not sell the cart and the donkey.

But though there was no lack of good offers for the excellent Spanish beast of burden, he allowed matters to remain as before.

If the rage seething in his heart led him, in his drunken frenzy, to make Kuni feel its effects, too, the pleading glance of the blue eyes, still large and expressive, with which she had so often hushed the wailing child, sufficed to soothe him.
Yesterday, for the first time, he had seriously threatened to drive the ropedancer away, and she knew that Cyriax was capable of anything.

True, his wife was attached to Kuni, but she had little influence over her vicious husband.

So the sick cripple might only too easily find herself left on the highway.
Still, she had given Cyriax cause for the threat.