Now, monsieur, be off! a man's house is his castle.

I don't know what you mean with your nonsense, but show me your heels, and if you dare touch Desire you'll have to answer to _me_,--you and your minx Ursula." She rang the bell violently and called to the servants.
"Remember what I have said to you," repeated Savinien to Minoret, paying no attention to Zelie's tirade.

Suspending the sword of Damocles over their heads, he left the room.
"Now, then, Minoret," said Zelie, "you will explain to me what this all means.

A young man doesn't rush into a house and make an uproar like that and demand the blood of a family for nothing." "It's some mischief of that vile Goupil," said the colossus.

"I promised to help him buy a practice if he would get me the Rouvre property cheap.
I gave him ten per cent on the cost, twenty thousand francs in a note, and I suppose he isn't satisfied." "Yes, but why did he get up those serenades and the scandals against Ursula ?" "He wanted to marry her." "A girl without a penny! the sly thing! Now Minoret, you are telling me lies, and you are too much of a fool, my son, to make me believe them.
There is something under all this, and you are going to tell me what it is." "There's nothing." "Nothing?
I tell you you lie, and I shall find it out." "Do let me alone!" "I'll turn the faucet of that fountain of venom, Goupil--whom you're afraid of--and we'll see who gets the best of it then." "Just as you choose." "I know very well it will be as I choose! and what I choose first and foremost is that no harm shall come to Desire.