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Add to this that thought of all most dismayful! he had himself to convince first, the worst dragon of all to kill, for bare honesty's sake, in his own field; while, all the time he was arming and fighting like the waves of the flowing tide in a sou'-wester, Sunday came in upon Sunday, roaring on his flat, defenceless shore, Sunday behind Sunday rose towering, in awful perspective, away to the verge of an infinite horizon Sunday after Sunday of dishonesty and sham yes, hypocrisy, far worse than any idolatry.
"Very likely, in throth, Bridget," said her husband; "however, as the ould proverb has it, 'honesty's the best policy. Let them see which of us I'll be the best off at the end of the year." "There's an odd whisper here an' there about another robber," continued Bryan; "but I don't believe a word about it.
He would not have admitted that he was wronging the man whom he made his tool; if honesty failed under temptation it was honesty's own look-out. Ten to one he himself would have fallen into such a trap, in similar circumstances; he was quite free from pharisaical prejudice; had he not reckoned on mere human nature in devising his plan?
I escape, I bring you over and here I am, supporting you, and in all probability, the one on whom depends the fate of one of the first families in the country. And you preaches at me, do you? Look you, Will; in this world, honesty's nothing without force of character! And so your health!"
Honesty's a bluff with most of the big respectables; under cover of their respectability, of their 'old and honored names, of their social connections, of their church-going and that, they do all sorts of queer work."
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