"Gore's no fool; you needn't tell me that," he observed presently, in a pugnacious tone, as if poor Gritty had been urging that lawyer's capabilities; "but, you see, he isn't up to the law as Wakem is.
She had never been vain or irritable or pugnacious in her life before.
But the ambitious taxi disrupter has been less pugnacious in China owing to Beijing's lack of patience for upstarts and outlaws.
