I could have struck the fool.
'But I know what you mean,' he replied, in a tone of suppressed rage.
'You would have her sell herself; sell herself to you to save me.

And you would have me stand by and see the thing done.

No, sir, never; never, though I go to the wheel.

I will die a gentleman, if I have lived a fool.' 'I think that you will do the one as certainly as you have done the other,' I retorted in my exasperation.

And yet I admired him.
'Oh, I am not quite a fool!' he cried, scowling at me.