It flashed across him that a man can be great, even in crime.
'What an ineffable fool you were,' said Racksole, stopping him at the threshold, 'with your talents, your unique talents, to get yourself mixed up in an affair of this kind.

You are ruined.

And, by Jove! you were a great man in your own line.' 'Mr Racksole,' said Rocco very quickly, 'that is the truest word you have spoken this night.

I was a great man in my own line.

And I am an ineffable fool.