"That only shows how little you know of the world, my lad.

You got it from your father, I daresay; he had a rough way of talking." "A disagreeable habit of telling the truth." "I know all about it.

Your father wasn't a man of business, and couldn't see things from a business point of view.

Now, what I just want to say to you is this: there's all the difference in the world between commercial failure and rascality.

If you go down to Liverpool, and ask men of credit for their opinion about Charles Edward Dengate, you'll have a lesson that would profit you.