But that we are wholly grateful to him, is a distinct conclusion.

And he may be one of the great men of his time: he has a quite individual style of dress.
Lady Rodwell Blachington observed to Colney Durance: 'Mr.Radnor bids fair to become the idol of the English people.' 'If he can prove himself to be sufficiently the dupe of the English people,' said Colney.
'Idol--dupe ?' interjected Sir Rodwell, and his eyebrows fixed at the perch of Colney's famous 'national interrogation' over vacancy of understanding, as if from the pull of a string.

He had his audience with him; and the satirist had nothing but his inner gush of acids at sight of a planted barb.
Colney was asked to explain.

He never explained.

He performed a series of astonishing leaps, like the branchy baboon above the traveller's head in the tropical forest, and led them into the trap they assisted him to prepare for them.