We can pass the summer and winter, and more summers and winters, very comfortably here.

If there is anything you would like to have brought from Rome, inform me, and I will satisfy any reasonable request." "The baron has already had the audacity to inform me that you would keep me a prisoner until I should marry him," said Hedwig; and her voice trembled as she remembered how Benoni had told her so.
"I doubt not that Benoni, who is a man of consummate tact, hinted delicately that he would not desist from pressing his suit.

You, well knowing my determination, and carried away by your evil temper, have magnified into a threat what he never intended as such.

Pray let me hear no more about these fancied insults." The old man smiled grimly at his keen perception.
"You shall hear me, nevertheless," said Hedwig, in a low voice, coming close to the table and resting one hand upon it as though for support.
"My daughter," said the count, "I desire you to abandon this highly theatrical and melodramatic tone.

I am not to be imposed upon." "Baron Benoni did not confine himself to the course you describe.