“ Sortez d’ici! ” 248

“I will send for Père Silas: on the spot I will send for him,” she threatened pertinaciously.

“ Femme! ” cried the Professor, not now in his deep tones, but in his highest and most excited key, “ Femme! sortez à l’instant! ” 249

He was roused, and I loved him in his wrath with a passion beyond what I had yet felt.

“What you do is wrong,” pursued Madame; “it is an act characteristic of men of your unreliable, imaginative temperament; a step impulsive, injudicious, inconsistent⁠—a proceeding vexatious, and not estimable in the view of persons of steadier and more resolute character.”