A subject of proper pride and congratulation, Christopher.

Honesty is the best policy .-- I always find it so myself.

I lost forty-seven pound ten by being honest this morning.

But it's all gain, it's gain!' Mr Brass slyly tickles his nose with his pen, and looks at Kit with the water standing in his eyes.

Kit thinks that if ever there was a good man who belied his appearance, that man is Sampson Brass.
'A man,' says Sampson, 'who loses forty-seven pound ten in one morning by his honesty, is a man to be envied.