And even then he's going to drop some of them." "Sampson, you say that like a man who wouldn't care much if Steele did drop some of them," declared Wright, and now he was sarcastic.
"To tell you the truth I wouldn't," returned the other bluntly.

"I'm pretty sick of this mess." Wright cursed in amaze.

His emotions were out of all proportion to his intelligence.

He was not at all quick-witted.

I had never seen a vainer or more arrogant man.