It is all the same to me if the old German tries to scratch my eyes out for it; I will take good care to keep out of his way.

I must go and listen once." She put her ear to the keyhole, and then her eye, to see how the quarrellers looked.
At first the general and his wife were quite alarmed, and almost speechless as they witnessed the joyful meeting of the lovers.

The father sprang up suddenly, with clinched fist, but instead of bitter invectives only a fearful shriek of pain was heard, as he sank groaning and whimpering into his armchair.

The gout had again seized its victim.
Anger had excited the general's blood, and had also brought on the pain in his leg again.

His wife took no notice of his cries and groans, for it was quite as agreeable to her to be the only speaker, and have her moaning husband a kind of assenting chorus.