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It was a petty employ for one of my reputation ; 
you would not hear, I felt, much more of it. I 
hope you have not been leading a double life, 
pretending to be wicked and being really good 
all the time. That would be hypocrisy. I have 
spoken of ironic comment. There was, I 
thought, little chance of that. I wondered if he 
had ever been an innocent child feeding among 
the pantries. But that was no fit time for such 
musings. He took foolish occasion to tell me 
who he was ; as if I did not know. Bills should 
always be met squarely. I turned to the man, 
and his gaze soon fell before mine. He had 
always spoken as if his throat were full of jelly. 
Now with a leer, he emitted sounds through 
this quag which shaped themselves into hints at 
some perpetual reward for valuable services 
rendered. But even then I had not made up my 
mind. It was, I said to myself, a bad workman 
who could not play one tool against another. 

It was a petty employ for one of my reputation ; 
you would not hear, I felt, much more of it. I 
hope you have not been leading a double life, 
pretending to be wicked and being really good 
all the time. That would be hypocrisy. I have 
spoken of ironic comment. There was, I 
thought, little chance of that. I wondered if he 
had ever been an innocent child feeding among 
the pantries. But that was no fit time for such 
musings. He took foolish occasion to tell me 
who he was ; as if I did not know. Bills should 
always be met squarely. I turned to the man, 
and his gaze soon fell before mine. He had 
always spoken as if his throat were full of jelly. 
Now with a leer, he emitted sounds through 
this quag which shaped themselves into hints at 
some perpetual reward for valuable services 
rendered. But even then I had not made up my 
mind. It was, I said to myself, a bad workman 
who could not play one tool against another.