It suits me anyway.

And look here--hadn't you better just show our friends over the side ?" he added; "no good of being at the risk and worry of smuggling for the benefit of creditors." "I don't think of the creditors," said I."But I've kept this pair so long, I haven't got the brass to fire them now." Indeed, I believe that was my only reason for entering upon a transaction which was now outside my interest, but which (as it chanced) repaid me fifty-fold in entertainment.

Fowler and Sharpe were both preternaturally sharp; they did me the honour in the beginning to attribute to myself their proper vices; and before we were done had grown to regard me with an esteem akin to worship.

This proud position I attained by no more recondite arts, than telling the mere truth and unaffectedly displaying my indifference to the result.

I have doubtless stated the essentials of all good diplomacy, which may be rather regarded, therefore, as a grace of state, than the effect of management.
For to tell the truth is not in itself diplomatic, and to have no care for the result a thing involuntary.