Destroy him.

Crush him.

And be happy.' With these words, Mr Tappertit, who seemed to expect no reply, and to hold it as a necessary consequence of his eloquence that his hearer should be utterly stunned, dumbfoundered, and overwhelmed, folded his arms so that the palm of each hand rested on the opposite shoulder, and disappeared after the manner of those mysterious warners of whom he had read in cheap story-books.
'That fellow,' said Mr Chester, relaxing his face when he was fairly gone, 'is good practice.

I HAVE some command of my features, beyond all doubt.

He fully confirms what I suspected, though; and blunt tools are sometimes found of use, where sharper instruments would fail.