I should think this lady might very fairly ask to be delivered from love of such a nature.
For if I, a stranger, had been one-tenth part so gross and so discourteous, you would most righteously have broke my head.

It would have been in your part, as lover, to protect her from such insolence.
Protect her first, then, from yourself.' 'Ay,' quoth Mr.Gottesheim, who had been looking on with his hands behind his tall old back, 'ay, that's Scripture truth.' Fritz was staggered, not only by the Prince's imperturbable superiority of manner, but by a glimmering consciousness that he himself was in the wrong.

The appeal to liberal doctrines had, besides, unmanned him.
'Well,' said he, 'if I was rude, I'll own to it.

I meant no ill, and did nothing out of my just rights; but I am above all these old vulgar notions too; and if I spoke sharp, I'll ask her pardon.' 'Freely granted, Fritz,' said Ottilia.
'But all this doesn't answer me,' cried Fritz.

'I ask what you two spoke about.