It was an enormous risk, rebelling against his party, and leaving me, and going over; but his temerity justified itself, and it didn't matter to him that people said he went over to get office as we were going out.

He got the office-and people forget so soon.

Then, what does he do--" "He brings out another book, and marries a wife, and abuses his old friends--and you." "Abuse?
With his tongue in his cheek, hoping that I should reply.
Dev'lishly ingenious! But on that book of Electricity and Disease he scored.

In most other things he's a barber-shop philosopher, but in science he has got a flare, a real talent.

So he moves modestly in this thing, for which he had a fine natural gift and more knowledge than he ever had before in any department, whose boundaries his impertinent and ignorant mind had invaded.