'He's not often in the house, you know.

He's more at his ease among horses than men.

I look upon him as a animal himself.' Following up this opinion with a shrug that seemed meant to say, 'we can't expect everybody to be like us,' John put his pipe into his mouth again, and smoked like one who felt his superiority over the general run of mankind.
'That chap, sir,' said John, taking it out again after a time, and pointing at him with the stem, 'though he's got all his faculties about him--bottled up and corked down, if I may say so, somewheres or another--' 'Very good!' said Parkes, nodding his head.

'A very good expression, Johnny.

You'll be a tackling somebody presently.