You were a clever boy in your studies; but it was your foible to fancy yourself cleverer than you were.

Acting under that delusion, you pitted yourself against me on one or two occasions; and I leave it to your candid recollection whether you or I had the best of the encounter.

You call yourself a man, now; but I make bold to say that the--discrepancy, let us call it--between you and me remains as conspicuous as ever it was.

I see through you, sir, much more clearly than, by this light, I can see you.

I am fond of you, Harvey; but I feel nothing but contempt for your present attitude.