A born and trained expert in reading human nature, he felt this giant somehow suspected him and was trying to trap him in an inaccuracy.

Wherefore, he fenced, verbally, calmly confident he could outpoint his clumsier antagonist.
"You don't look like the kind of man who need sleep out of doors," replied Standish, speaking slowly, as one who chooses his every word with care, and with his cold blue eyes unobtrusively scanning Gavin's battered face.

"That's the bedroom for bums.

You aren't a bum.

Even if your manner, and the way you fought out yonder, didn't prove that.