"But my idea was better--and that 's what I mean!" Rowland said nothing.

He was willing to wait for Roderick to complete the circle of his metamorphoses, but he had no desire to officiate as chorus to the play.

If Roderick chose to fish in troubled waters, he must land his prizes himself.
"You think I 'm an impudent humbug," the latter said at last, "coming up to moralize at this hour of the night.

You think I want to throw dust into your eyes, to put you off the scent.

That 's your eminently rational view of the case." "Excuse me from taking any view at all," said Rowland.
"You have given me up, then ?" "No, I have merely suspended judgment.