I thought that the thing was bound to be a failure.

I knew Durnovo, and had no faith in him.

You've got a gentle way about you, and your clothes are so confoundedly neat.

But--" Here he paused and pulled down the folds of his Norfolk jacket.

"But I liked the way you shot that leopard the day we first met." "Beastly fluke," put in Meredith, with his pleasant laugh.
Oscard contented himself with a denying shake of the head.
"Of course," he continued, with obvious determination to get it all off his mind, "I know as well as you do that you are the chief of this concern--have been chief since we left Msala--and I never want to work under a better man." He put his pipe back between his lips and turned round with a contented smile, as much as to say, "There, that is the sort of man I am! When I want to say that sort of thing I can say it with the best of you." "We have pulled along very comfortably, haven't we ?" said Meredith; "thanks to your angelic temper.