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CHAPTER
XI. page 68
` "Honest Tom Duncombe!" We never heard him so designated
before except in pleasantry. "As honest as any man living, that
is an old man, and not honester than I." We cannot go further
than Verges; it is a stretch of charity to go so far when we call
to mind the magnificent reversion and the French jobs. A ruined
spendthrift, although he may have many good qualities, can never,
strictly speaking, be termed honest. It is absurd to say of him
that he is nobody's enemy but his own--with family, friends, and
tradespeople paying the penalty for his self-indulgence. He must
be satisfied to be called honourable--to be charged with no
transgression of the law of honour; which Paley defines as "a
system of rules constructed by people of fashion, and calculated
to facilitate their intercourse with one another, _AND FOR NO
OTHER PURPOSE_."
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