For though men are good, and in the long run what they do is God's work and is therefore acceptable, no man is perfect.

There goes Lige Bemis past the post-office, now, for instance; when he was in the legislature in the late sixties, every one knows that Minneola raised twenty thousand dollars in cash and offered it to Lige if he would pretend to be sick and quit work on the Sycamore Ridge county-seat bill.

He could have fooled us, and could have taken the money, which was certainly more than he could expect to get from Sycamore Ridge.

Did he take it?
Not at all.

A million would not have tempted him.