"Do I look like a man afraid of anything?
But the thought of a stranger becoming mayor of Herculaneum rather frightens me.

Let us have peace, Mr.Warrington." "I ask nothing better." "Withdraw." "I never withdraw.

I am not afraid of anything.

I even promise to be good-natured enough to look upon this meeting as a colossal joke." Warrington's cigar had gone out.

He relighted it coolly.