"You talk like a fool.

I'm not anything of the sort.

I admire him.

How could any one help it ?" (At this time, of course, Cowperwood's name was filling the city.) "He's a very wonderful man.
He was never brutal to me.

He's a full-sized man--I'll say that for him." By now Aileen had become sufficiently familiar with Lynde to criticize him in her own mind, and even outwardly by innuendo, for being a loafer and idler who had never created in any way the money he was so freely spending.