Poor lady! I don't wonder that the life went out of her so suddenly, nor at the terror I saw in her face.

Can nothing be done?
Has he no friends here who will draw him out of the supper-room and get him away before he loses control of himself ?" "It is too late.

If he has begun to drink, it is all over.

You might as well try to draw off a wolf who has tasted blood." "Does he become violent?
Are we going to have a drunken scene ?" "Oh no; we need apprehend nothing of that kind.

I never heard of his committing any public folly.