He wants suppressing from time to time.' 'He does.

He's beginning to take liberties with what he thinks is his reputation.' 'Already! By Jove, he has cheek! I don't know about his reputation, but he'll come a cropper if he tries that sort of thing.' 'So I told him.

I don't think he believes it.' 'They never do when they first start off.

What's that wreck on the ground there ?' 'Specimen of his latest impertinence.' Torpenhow thrust the torn edges of the canvas together and showed the well-groomed picture to the Nilghai, who looked at it for a moment and whistled.
'It's a chromo,' said he,--'a chromo-litholeomargarine fake! What possessed him to do it?
And yet how thoroughly he has caught the note that catches a public who think with their boots and read with their elbows! The cold-blooded insolence of the work almost saves it; but he mustn't go on with this.

Hasn't he been praised and cockered up too much?
You know these people here have no sense of proportion.