"By no other name. I never bore another."
"Was the partnership an agreeable one?"
"Not to me; it was infernally disagreeable. I never want another partner like him."
"Why?"
"Because I don't want another savage beast for a partner."
"You did not get along well with him?"
"Quite the reverse."
"For what reasons?"
"Well, for one, I am a hard-working man; he is an indolent bully. The master he works for once does not want to employ him again. When we worked together on a task, the profits of which were to be equally divided between us, he shirked his share of the work, and left me to do the lot."
"Did you endeavour to separate from him?"