"But you are ungentlemanly to express yourself so freely.

Why should you say that ?" "Because I chance to know more than you suppose.

Never mind how the information reached me; had it been less authentic you might find me now more susceptible to your presence, more choice in my language.

A carefully conceived plot drove me from the Confederate service, in which you were as deeply involved as Le Fevre.

Its double object was to advance him in rank and get me out of the way.