He, however, could not leave without showing to her something of his authority.

He came lurching over near where I lay, his long knife balanced in his hand ready for emergencies, and broke into a string of vituperations of the character to which I was quite hardened.
"Then he took a flying kick at me and got home in my ribs, but again I experienced neither a sense of indignity nor any great hurt.

Salvolio had treated me like this before and I had survived it.

In the midst of the tirade, looking past him, I was a new witness to an extraordinary scene.
"The girl stood in the open doorway, shrinking back against the door, looking with distress and pity at the spectacle which Salvolio's brutality afforded.

Then suddenly there appeared beside her a tall Turk.
He was grey-bearded and forbidding.