She had a secret conviction that it would not be good to push the gentle Anastase too far.

He was too quiet, too determined, and too serious not to be a little dangerous if roused.
"Do not be absurd," she repeated.

"Whatever Gouache may choose to do, he is a gentleman, and I will not have you talk of traitors like that.

He does not quarrel with you--why do you try to quarrel with him ?" "I think he has done quite enough to justify a quarrel, I am sure," replied Del Ferice, moodily.
"My dear sir," said Gouache, desisting from his work and turning towards Ugo, "Madame is quite right.

I not only do not quarrel, but I refuse to be quarrelled with.