[Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookLife And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit CHAPTER EIGHT 6/20
We should not have been there at all, if we had not been hypocrites.
The only difference between you and the rest was--shall I tell you the difference between you and the rest now, Pecksniff ?' 'If you please, my good sir; if you please.' 'Why, the annoying quality in YOU, is,' said the old man, 'that you never have a confederate or partner in YOUR juggling; you would deceive everybody, even those who practise the same art; and have a way with you, as if you--he, he, he!--as if you really believed yourself.
I'd lay a handsome wager now,' said the old man, 'if I laid wagers, which I don't and never did, that you keep up appearances by a tacit understanding, even before your own daughters here.
Now I, when I have a business scheme in hand, tell Jonas what it is, and we discuss it openly.
You're not offended, Pecksniff ?' 'Offended, my good sir!' cried that gentleman, as if he had received the highest compliments that language could convey. 'Are you travelling to London, Mr Pecksniff ?' asked the son. 'Yes, Mr Jonas, we are travelling to London.
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