"I tell him so," he added, "though that is needless, for he knows it himself.

His mind has traveled over a large scope of intellectual territory, and he commands my respect while I object to his methods." The conversation took a serious turn, and Richmond flooded it with his learning.

His voice was low and his manner modest--a great man who in the game of human affairs played below the limit of his abilities.
McGlenn roused himself.

When emphatic, he had a way of turning out his thumb and slowly hammering his knee with his fist.

In his sky there was a cloud of pessimism, but the brightness of his speech threw a rainbow across it.