I can't allow the matter to be dropped, stifled.

I have never been guilty of such a thing, and I refuse to become guilty of it now.

I refuse--do you understand?
O'Moy, you have acted; and you must take the consequences, and be damned to you." "Faith, I've never asked you to help me, sir," Sir Terence protested.
"And you don't intend to, I suppose ?" "I do not." "I am glad of that." He was in one of those rages which were as terrible as they were rare with him.

"I wouldn't have you suppose that I make laws for the sake of rescuing people from the consequences of disobeying them.

Here is this brother-in-law of yours, this fellow Butler, who has made enough mischief in the country to imperil our relations with our allies.