He likes to eat everything without sharing.
As Louisa had no desire to receive the attentions of the Prince, and Lady Penrhyn was well-practised in the art of inveigling, she would have soon carried her point, if she had not met with one who disputed the prize almost as adroitly as herself;...
It bore reference to the first detention on mere postal technique, but a man's nose is placed between his eyes that he may smell out what he cannot see into, and knowing the ways of such people (Boccacio's phrase in speaking of the pranksome devils depicted by Dante in the Inferno, and quite apropos of Messrs. Stevens, Tobey, Comstock, and the rest), and suspecting the true mischief, I at once wrote to Mr. Chainey, personally a stranger to me, asking the particulars.
the ways of such people
The early tenet of sinocentrism was that the superiority of Zhongguo, the Central State, in wen (culture and civilization) would inevitably dominate the mere military violence (wu) of the Inner Asian tribes.
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