"It's a very important test, isn't it?" Byerly pushes on, heartlessly. "I'm quite sure I heard our dear instructor tell us it was a large percentage of our final grade. And isn't the end of the year coming up within a month of so? At least, I believe that's how you do things here. It's certainly not the way we do things back--" On Barrayar. "--in Russia, however, none of this is, so I'm afraid to inform you that our final grade rests in your hands. Which don't seem to be at all competent, if I really must say."
EXCELLENT! APOLOGIES FOR HIS DICKISHNESS
His drawling voice drips with poison and scorn.