What do you say?
That inhuman way of talking is unworthy of me?
Really I don't think so.

I'm not a downright savage.

It's only indifference." "Does your brother return your indifference?
You must be a nice pair, if he does!" Benjulia seemed to find a certain dreary amusement in considering the question that Ovid had proposed.

He decided on doing justice to his absent relative.
"My brother's intelligence is perhaps equal to such a small effort as you suggest," he said.

"He has just brains enough to keep himself out of an asylum for idiots.