half-respect

Updated: May 10, 2025

And Banks and Martinez would quarrel at once, and go back on each other. No; my idea is to let some outsider do for Todos Santos what Perkins did for Quinquinambo. Do you take?" His long, thin, dyspeptic face lit up with a certain small political cunning and shrewdness that struck Brace with a half-respect. "I say, Winslow; you'd have made a first-class caucus leader in San Francisco."

Bret Harte - The Crusade of the Excelsior