And yet i did not despise him the more for it, but thought it a redeeming quality in him if he could be allowed any grace for not resisting one so irresistible as steerforth. In some places it looked like molten chrome, but in other places it might have been a surging mass of dark blood.
Use diplomatic subterfuge if you have to.
Rob, however, used it to look down on people and social groups in what he thought was an ideologically sanctioned way.