"Uncle, I _wish_ you would let me do something for you.

Better send me out of the house altogether, than treat me with this estrangement.

Will it be of any use my asking you, for the hundredth time, what I did to displease you ?" "I tell you I don't want the paper read," said Mr.Verner.

"And if you'd leave me alone I should be glad.

Perhaps I shall get a wink of sleep.
All night, all night, and my eyes were never closed! It's time I was gone." The concluding sentences were spoken as in soliloquy; not to Lionel.
Lionel, who knew his uncle's every mood, quitted the room.