No one can really understand him.
Sometimes he seems to be on the side of the law, sometimes on the side of the criminal.

He takes just what cases he pleases, and a million dollars wouldn't tempt him to touch one he doesn't care about.

Watch him go out.
They say that you can almost tell the lives of the people he passes, from the way they look at him.

There isn't a crook here or in the street who doesn't know that if Sanford Quest chose, his career would be ended." The country cousin was impressed at last.

With staring eyes and opened mouth, he watched the man who had been sitting only a few tables away from them push back the plate on which lay his bill and rise to his feet.