This Grotait was the greatest fanatic of the four, and, like all fanatics, capable of vast cruelty: but his cruelty lay in his head, rather than in his heart.
Out of Trade questions, the man, though vain and arrogant, was of a genial and rather a kindly nature; and, even in Trade questions, being more intelligent than his fellows, he was sometimes infested with a gleam of humanity.
His bigotry was, at this moment, disturbed by a visitation of that kind.
"I'm perplexed," said he: "I don't often hesitate on a Trade question neither.

But the men we have done were always low-lived blackguards, who would have destroyed us, if we had not disabled them.

Now this Little is a decent young chap.

He struck at the root of our Trades, so long as he wrought openly.

But on the sly, and nobody knowing but ourselves, mightn't it be as well to shut our eyes a bit?
My informant is not in trade." The other three took a more personal view of the matter.