"not a bit of it! you are much too good to him; you shouldn’t care a hang about what he thinks. i have heard of such things before, but never came across, till tonight, a man who would actually shoot himself in order to gain a vulgar notoriety, or blow out his brains for spite, if he finds that people don’t care to pat him on the back for his sanguinary intentions. but what astonishes me more than anything is the fellow’s candid confession of weakness. you’d better get rid of him tomorrow, in any case."