Imagine them uttered, and she has the initiative for life.
She would not have it, certainly, with a downright brute.

But he was not that.

In an extremity of bitterness, he fished up a drowned old thought, of all his torments being due to the impulsive half-brute he was.

And between the good and the bad in him, the sole point of strength was a pride likely, as the smooth simplicity of her indifference showed him, soon to be going down prostrate beneath her feet.

Wholly a brute--well?
He had to say, that playing the perfect brute with any other woman he would have his mastery.