Honest! who is honest?
Ain't we every one engaged in getting round our neighbors?
Isn't the whole game, all the world over, lying and deceit?
Honest! you might as well go on the boards without faking up your face, as try to live honest.

Hold your tongue, then." He growled and swore, and after his fashion called on the Heavens to witness and express their astonishment.
The girl bent her head, and made no reply for a space.

She was cowed and afraid.

Presently she looked up and laughed, but with a forced laugh.
"Don't be cross, Joe; I'll do whatever you want me to do, and cheerfully, too, if it will do you any good.

What is a woman good for but to help her husband?
Only don't be cross, Joe." She knew what her husband was by this time--a false and unscrupulous man.