But what is this!--The devil's in it! What business is it of the child's?
Now, be off with you this minute.

Eudoxia, take this little girl to her tasks." He took Mary's head between his hands, kissed her forehead with impetuous affection, and then pushed her towards her governess, who dutifully led her away.
When Orion found himself alone, he leaned against a tree and groaned like a wounded wild beast.

His heart was full to bursting.
"Gone, gone! Thrown away, lost! The best on earth!" He laid his hands on the tree-stem and pressed his head against it till it hurt him.

He did not know how to contain himself for misery and self-reproach.

He felt like a man who has been drunk and has reduced his own house to ashes in his intoxication.