Did they love him as I love him?
Give me the book!" Major Fitz-David looked at Benjamin.
"It will only additionally shock and distress her if I give her the book," he said.

"Don't you agree with me ?" I interposed before Benjamin could answer.
"If you refuse my request," I said, "you will oblige me, Major, to go to the nearest bookseller and tell him to buy the Trial for me.

I am determined to read it." This time Benjamin sided with me.
"Nothing can make matters worse than they are, sir," he said.

"If I may be permitted to advise, let her have her own way." The Major rose and took the book out of the Italian cabinet, to which he had consigned it for safe-keeping.
"My young friend tells me that she informed you of her regrettable outbreak of temper a few days since," he said as he handed me the volume.

"I was not aware at the time what book she had in her hand when she so far forgot herself as to destroy the vase.