Better split with him at once," said the guest who had used the expletive.
"He can't have any very big hold," said a third.

"It's only that trial which has given him a temporary popularity." "Wait and see if he goes back on Catlin, and if he does, lay for him," remarked Green.
A pause came, and they all looked at Costell, who was smiling a certain deep smile that was almost habitual with him, and which no one had ever yet been able to read.

"No," he said slowly.

"You might beat him, but he isn't the kind that stays beat.

I'll agree to outwit any man in politics, except the man who knows how to fight and to tell the people the truth.