We have none of us too much of this honesty of which we are so fond of prating.
Where was your honesty when you ordered the coat for which you know you cannot pay?
or when you swore to the bootmaker that he should have the amount of his little bill after next quarter-day, knowing in your heart at the time that he wouldn't get a farthing of it?
If you are so honest, why did you waste your money to-day in going to Chiswick, instead of paying some portion of your debts?
Honest! you are, I dare say, indifferently honest as the world goes, like the rest of us.

But I think you might put the burden of Clementina's fortune on your conscience without feeling much the worse for it after what you have already gone through.' Charley became very red in the face as he sat silent, listening to Alaric's address--nor did he speak at once at the first pause, so Alaric went on.

'The truth, I take it, is, that at the present moment you have no personal fancy for this girl.' 'No, I have not,' said Charley.
'And you are so incredibly careless as to all prudential considerations as to prefer your immediate personal fancies to the future welfare of your whole life.

I can say no more.

If you will think well of my proposition, I will do all I can to assist you.