I'd always pictured his cleverness as being inseparable with at least a decent sort of man, even if he was a rogue and a criminal, but I'm through with that.

He's a rotter and a hound of the rankest sort! I didn't think there was anything more vulgar or brutal than murder, but he's shown me that there is.

A guttersnipe's got more decency! To murder a man and then boastfully label the corpse is--" "Say, Carruthers," said Jimmie Dale plaintively, suddenly hanging back, "I say, you know, it's--it's all right for you to mess up in this sort of thing, it's your beastly business, and I'm awfully damned thankful to you for giving me a look-in, but isn't it--er--rather INFRA DIG for me?
A bit morbid, you know, and all that sort of thing.

I'd never hear the end of it at the club--you know what the St.James is.

Couldn't I be Merideth Stanley Annstruther, or something like that, one of your new reporters, or something like that, you know ?" Carruthers chuckled.