Is not that a spoke in your wheel ?" asked the man of few words.
"A loose spoke which will drop out.

No one--not even Prim--thinks that he will last ten years.

He may not last ten months." "But you have to reckon with the man.

This son of Victor Emmanuel is clever and capable.

One can never tell what may arise in a brain that works beneath a crown." "We have reckoned with him.