The bio win' an' drinkin' was done by his pals.

But after a little while it got to me that Blome gloried in this situation.
I've seen a man dead-set to kill another, all dark, sullen, restless.
But Blome wasn't that way.

He didn't seem at all like a bloody devil.

He was vain, cocksure.

He was revelin' in the effect he made.