Though what does that mean, 'done your best'?
That's a reproach, isn't it?
You always go straight for things, though....

What I was most afraid of, as I came here, was that you wouldn't go straight for the point." "I don't want to go straight for anything," said Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch with some irritation.

But he laughed at once.
"I didn't mean that, I didn't mean that, don't make a mistake," cried Pyotr Stepanovitch, waving his hands, rattling his words out like peas, and at once relieved at his companion's irritability.

"I'm not going to worry you with _our_ business, especially in your present position.

I've only come about Sunday's affair, and only to arrange the most necessary steps, because, you see, it's impossible.