But it annoys me greatly....

I'm going to say a few things to him." Don Pedro, who was continuing his daily visits in order to console the mother, speaking of poor Esteban as though he were his own son, and casting servile smiles upon the captain, found himself intercepted by him one afternoon, on the landing of the stairway.
The sailor aged suddenly while talking, and his features were accented with a vigorous ugliness.

At that moment he looked exactly like his uncle, the _Triton_.
With a threatening voice, he recalled a classic passage well known to the professor.

His namesake, old Ulysses, upon returning to his palace, had found Penelope surrounded with suitors and had ended by hanging them on tenterhooks.
"Wasn't that the way of it, Professor ?...

I do not find here more than one suitor, but this Ulysses swears to you that he will hang him in the same way if he finds him again in his home." Don Pedro fled.