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They look down upon the Russian peasantry as poor, ignorant, lazy, and dishonest, fear the officials on account of their tyranny and extortion, preserve jealously their own language and customs, rarely speak Russian well sometimes not at all and never intermarry with those from whom they are separated by nationality and religion.
"I I guess I ought to be going. Susan doesn't know where I am." I was exasperated. It was clear, though he did not say so, that he thought me dishonest. The pain in his eyes had deepened. "If you feel that way " I said. "Oh, God, I don't know how I feel!" he cried. "You're the oldest friend I have, Hugh, I can't forget that. We'll say nothing more about it."
Swan," said Mr. Prendergast, "I should think myself dishonest were I to worm your secrets out of you, seeing that you are yourself so truthful and so respectable." Perhaps it may be thought that Mr. Prendergast was a little late in looking at the matter in this light.
At first I lent ear to the popular statement at El-Wijh; namely, that the visiting doctors and the resident sanitary officers naturally prefer the shorter to the longer voyage, and the nearer station to that further from home. Moreover, inasmuch as, if inclined to be dishonest, they find more opportunities in the north, it was their interest to transfer the establishment to Tor.
Yet a lingering suspicion, borne of his early training, and his father's doctrines about Ireland, that Pat was really a scheming, dishonest fellow, obtruded itself on his mind, even as he became more than half convinced of the little village's desperate plight. Nathaniel loathed injustice. As the magistrate of his county he punished dishonesty.
"The boarders who then lived in the Maison Vauquer are still living, and may be called to establish his identity. "The self-styled Carlos Herrera is Monsieur Lucien de Rubempre's intimate friend and adviser, and for three years past has furnished him with considerable sums, evidently obtained by dishonest means.
Where possible, I preferred this method of disposing of manuscripts. Not only did it save stamps a considerable item with me but it seemed quicker and safer than the post. I had a dishonest little formula for porters and bell boys in these offices, from the enunciation of which I derived a comforting sense of security and dispatch.
We have said that Adrienne had sometimes heard talk of Rodin, the humble secretary of the Abbe d'Aigrigny, as a sort of obedient and passive machine. That was not all; the bailiff of Cardoville Manor, writing to Adrienne on the subject of Prince Djalma, had complained of the perfidious and dishonest propositions of Rodin.
As the two men shook hands, Randolph Fitts remarked drily: "Seems to me I remember your saying something of the sort the first day you ever laid eyes on A. A., Abel." "The trouble is," put in Soapy Shay sarcastically, "you don't know a dishonest one when you see him, Bill." "Veil, let's get down to business," said Moses Block nervously. "Ve must go slow and careful-like.
"But it is a little wearing for us both, for she knows I don't understand it, and I know she thinks me a little dishonest for pretending to." "Mother!" The girl's gray eyes opened wide above her cool, creamy cheeks; the deep dimples that made her mother's face so girlish actually added a regularity and seriousness to the daughter's soft chin.
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