Maxence shall not be your proxy unless he first kills me.

If I kill him, you must agree to take me in his place, and I'll undertake to break in that handsome girl and keep her at your beck and call.

Yes, Flore shall love you, and if she doesn't satisfy you--thunder! I'll thrash her." "Oh! I never could allow that.

A blow struck at Flore would break my heart." "But it is the only way to govern women and horses.

A man makes himself feared, or loved, or respected.