Can you not, at least, give me your pity ?" "Mr.Capella," she cried, and none but one blind to all save his own passionate desires could fail to note her lofty disdain, "how can you be so base as to use such language to me ?" "Base! To love you!" "Again I say it--base and unmanly.

What have I done that you should venture to so insult your charming wife, not to speak of the insult to myself?
When you so far forgot yourself a fortnight ago as to hint at your outrageous ideas regarding me, I forced myself to remember that you were not an Englishman, that perhaps in your country there may be a social code which permits a man to dishonour his home and to annoy a defenceless woman.

I cannot forgive you a second time.

Let me pass! Let me pass, I tell you, or I will strike you!" Brett, in his admiration for the spirited girl who, notwithstanding her protestations, seemed to be anything but "defenceless," momentarily forgot his companion.
A convulsive tightening of Hume's muscles, preparatory to a leap through the hedge, warned him in time.
"Idiot!" he whispered, as he clutched him again.
Were not the others so taken up with the throbbing influences of the moment they must have heard the rustling of the leaves.

But they paid little heed to external affairs.