Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.

William 'Boss' Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.