His antagonist was drunk with choler, and would not listen to a word that tended to check the impetuosity of his thoughts.

He traversed the room with perturbed steps, and even foamed with anguish and fury.

Mr.
Falkland, finding that all was to no purpose, told the count, that, if he would return to-morrow at the same hour, he would attend him to any scene of action he should think proper to select.
From Count Malvesi Mr.Falkland immediately proceeded to the palace of Pisani.

Here he found considerable difficulty in appeasing the indignation of Lady Lucretia.

His ideas of honour would by no means allow him to win her to his purpose by disclosing the cartel he had received; otherwise that disclosure would immediately have operated as the strongest motive that could have been offered to this disdainful beauty.