He banged and kicked.

The violent altercation with wood and wall lasted several minutes, ending as it had begun.
Flesh may worry, but is sure to be worsted in such an argument.
'Well, my dear lady!'-- Redworth addressed Lady Dunstane aloud, while driving his hands into his pockets for warmth--'we've done what we could.

The next best thing is to go to bed and see what morning brings us.' The temptation to glance at the wild divinings of dreamy-witted women from the point of view of the practical man, was aided by the intense frigidity of the atmosphere in leading him to criticize a sex not much used to the exercise of brains.

'And they hate railways!' He associated them, in the matter of intelligence, with Andrew Hedger and Company.
They sank to the level of the temperature in his esteem--as regarded their intellects.

He approved their warmth of heart.