"Yet these foreigners are cunning," he said doubtfully.

"Are you sure your plan is not suspected ?" "Quite sure.

There was one man--a cursed interfering jackanapes of an American, whom they all call Jimgrim, of whom I was afraid.
He is clever.

He goes snooping here and there, and knows how to disguise himself.

But he fell downstairs this morning and broke his thigh in two places.