He never attempts to deceive you.

He tells out, point-blank, the most foolish things he has done--the most ridiculous expenses he has run into.

He may be extravagant, but he is not untruthful.

I have no doubt, if I sent this list to his trades-people, they would verify every halfpenny, and that this really is the end of the list.

Not such a long list neither, if you consider.