I could not have done it if I had been in my senses.
I have always loved you as I never loved any other woman; and I never loved you so wildly as now." "Leave me!" she exclaimed imperiously.

"Your being here does me injury.

If you have any manhood in you, leave me!" He strove to clutch the folds of her robe, and in frenzied tones cried out: "O Rosabella, don't drive me from you! I can't live without--" A voice like a pistol-shot broke in upon his sentence: "Villain! Deceiver! What are you doing here?
Out of the house this instant!" Fitzgerald sprung to his feet, pale with rage, and encountered the flashing eyes of the Signor.

"What right have _you_ to order me out of the house ?" said he.
"I am her adopted father," replied the Italian; "and no man shall insult her while I am alive." "So _you_ are installed as her protector!" retorted Fitzgerald, sneeringly.

"You are not the first gallant I have known to screen himself behind his years." "By Jupiter!" vociferated the enraged Italian; and he made a spring to clutch him by the throat.
Fitzgerald drew out a pistol.