Are you still thinking of cutting his throat?
Please say one polite and civil word to him.

It is not he, it is you who are gloomy.

Throw off your sinister air.

How long will this taciturn reverie last in which you are sunk?
You make yourself a laughing-stock--you act like a fool.

You resemble a sphinx of the desert engaged in meditating upon a serpent, and who mistakes an innocent adder for a viper." M.Langis understood what she wished to say to him, but he did not throw off his sinister air.
After praising Vienna and its environs, Samuel Brohl eulogized the easy, careless character of the Viennese.