Personally I think it was a pretty fair imitation." "Yes, I took it for fun, or mistook it; that's the pity of it! I can forgive myself for almost everything but having been a fool!" "That's always a hard dose to swallow," agreed Langham.

He was willing to enter into his friend's mood.
"Have you ever tried to swallow it ?" asked North.
"I can't say I have.

Some of us haven't any business with a conscience--our blood's too red.

I've made up my mind that, while I may be a man of moral impulses I am also a creature of purest accident.

It's the same with you, Jack.