He did not believe in honesty, but only in mock honesty.

And yet he would speak of an honest man with admiration, meaning something altogether different from the honesty of which men ordinarily spoke.

The usual honesty of the world was with him all pretence, or, if not, assumed for the sake of the character it would achieve.

Mr.Grey he knew to be honest; Mr.Grey's word he knew to be true; but he fancied that Mr.Grey had adopted this absurd mode of living with the view of cheating his neighbors by appearing to be better than others.

All virtue and all vice were comprised by him in the words "good-nature" and "ill-nature." All church-going propensities,--and these propensities in his estimate extended very widely,--he scorned from the very bottom of his heart.