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Updated: May 19, 2025
In the evening we receive our friends at the château the vicar, the Morands, father and son, and, twice a week, the notary. We play whist at penny points, and very lively games of piquet only the latter not so often, as my uncle cheats at it. About eleven o'clock the carriages are got ready to take these people home.
These good souls see what he sees, that lies, and shams, and cheats in business, in science, in politics, in religion, in social life, are often very successful and very powerful, and they come to their conclusion, which is not his by a great deal. He thinks the lie ought to be hated, with a hatred the more intense because of its success.
When the merriment had subsided Rance rose and took the floor. His face was paler than usual, though his voice was calm when presently he said: "Well, bein' Sheriff, I'm careful about my company I'll sit in the bar. Cheats and road agents" and here he paused meaningly and glanced from The Sidney Duck to the Girl "ar'n't jest in my line.
The priests awoke and consulted with each other, then Eddo said: "This matter is too high for us, King of the Zulus." Dingaan heard, and laughed angrily. "I thought it, I thought it!" he cried. "Ye are but cheats after all who, like any common doctor, repeat the gossip that ye have heard, and pretend that it is a message from Heaven.
It might have been fanciful to suppose that under their outer bearing there was something of the shamed air of two cheats who were linked together by concealed handcuffs; but, not so, to suppose that they were haggardly weary of one another, of themselves, and of all this world.
And when the booths of the town were full of all kinds of wares and merchandise, and all the greens in the town were full of games, and plays, and cheats, and fools, and apes, and knaves, only those two penniless men would abide shut up at home.
He is dull at trade indeed, it is the common remark that "Everybody cheats Chalmerson." He came to the party the other evening and brought his guitar. They wouldn't have him for a tenor in the opera, certainly, for he is shaky in his upper notes; but if his simple melodies didn't gush straight from the heart! why, even my trained eyes were wet!
It is not a cheerful picture of human life. We are brought to see an unusual number of misers, harpies, quacks, cheats, and hypocrites. There are but few interesting characters in it: Dorothea is the most so, a very noble woman, but romantic, and making great mistakes.
He whose work-conscience permits him to be inexact, permits himself to do less than his best and in that respect cheats and steals. The work-conscience is as variably developed as any other type of conscience. There are those who are rogues in all else but not in their work. They will not turn out a bad piece of work for they have identified the best in them with their work.
All his cheats are primitive, and therefore more innocent and of greater purity than those that are by tradition from hand to hand derived to them; for he conveys money out of one man's pocket into another's with much more sincerity and ingenuity than those that do it in a legal way, and for a less considerable, though more conscientious, reward.
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