That must be a new development in him.

It doesn't chime with the other things you hear of him as a shrewd, calculating manager, who strikes his enemies in the dark.

He was in an evil humor that night or he wouldn't have talked to me as he did.

He was ugly and vindictive.
He was not only glad he had put Dan in the way of temptation, but he wanted me to know that he had done it.

He seemed to be setting his back to the wall and daring the world." "Well, well," said Mrs.Owen.