But there's some things you can't understand, and it's no use for me to waste time talking to you about them.

If your mind was clearer, if it had been enlightened in the true way, you would not be selling rum, for instance." "Vouldn't I, dough?
Vell, I yoost vant you to understand dere's no better business in dis town dan I am a-doin' right in dis shop.

But if I didn't tink it vas right, I vouldn't be doin' it at all.

You talk in dis country as if de rum-sellers vas de very vorst people in de vorld.
I vant you to understand over in my country, dat's a good deal older dan dis, and vere de peoples has had a good deal more experience, a man don't get no right to sell liquor unless he is a first-class citizen in every respect.

It's a sign dat a man is honest an' sensible an' knows how to manage oder men, if he gets de right to sell liquor.