It struck me that he seemed to treat Churchill in nuances as an inferior, whilst for the invisible Gurnard, he reserved an attitude of nervous self-assertion.

He had apparently come to dilate on the _Systeme Groenlandais_, and he dilated.

Some mistaken persons had insinuated that the _Systeme_ was neither more nor less than a corporate exploitation of unhappy Esquimaux.

De Mersch emphatically declared that those _mistaken_ people were _mistaken_, declared it with official finality.

The Esquimaux were not unhappy.