You may make envy and dislike bite (hold) their tongues, but you cannot prevent their stinging under the veil.
Therefore, once more, you cannot let my interference pass as if none but you knew of it." "Madonna, if I _am_ to rule such a household, I will rule as absolutely as your autocratic Prince.

I will tolerate no criticism and no questions." "You surely forget," she urged, "that they know my offence, and do not know--must not know--what in your judgment excuses it.

Let them once learn that it is possible so to force the springs [bolts] without a sting, it will take a salt-fountain [of tears] to blot the lesson from their memory." "What would you have, Eveena?
Am I to deal unjustly that I may seem just?
That course steers straight to disaster.

And, had you been in fault, could, I humble you in other eyes ?" "If I feel hurt by any mark of your displeasure, or humbled that it should be known to my equals in your own household," she replied, "it is time I were deprived of the privileges that have rendered me so overweening." My answer was intercepted by the sound of an electric bell or miniature gong, and a slip of tafroo fell upon the desk.

The first words were in that vocal character which I had mastered, and came from Esmo.
"Hysterical folly," he had said.