"You, of course, are not a thief and a scoundrel," he shall say to you, but shall say it in such a tone of voice as to make you understand that he conceives you to be both.

We all know the parliamentary mode of giving an opponent the lie so as to make it impossible that the Speaker shall interfere.
Mr.Tyrrwhit had treated Mr.Grey in the same fashion; and as Mr.Grey was irritable, thin-skinned, and irascible, and as he would brood over things of which it was quite unnecessary that a lawyer should take any cognizance, he went back home an unhappy man.

Indeed, the whole Scarborough affair had been from first to last a great trouble to him.
The work which he was now performing could not, he imagined, be put into his bill.

To that he was supremely indifferent; but his younger partner thought it a little hard that all the other work of the firm should be thrown on his shoulders during the period which naturally would have been his holidays, and he did make his feelings intelligible to Mr.
Grey.

Mr.Grey, who was essentially a just man, saw that his partner was right, and made offers, but he would not accede to the only proposition which his partner made.