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CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
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MR. MONTAGUE AT HOME. AND MR. JONAS CHUZZLEWIT AT HOME
There were many powerful reasons for Jonas Chuzzlewit being strongly prepossessed in favour of the scheme which its great originator had so boldly laid open to him; but three among them stood prominently forward. Firstly, there was money to be made by it. Secondly2, the money had the peculiar3 charm of being sagaciously obtained at other people’s cost. Thirdly, it involved much outward show of homage4 and distinction: a board being an awful institution in its own sphere, and a director a mighty5 man. ‘To make a swingeing profit, have a lot of chaps to order about, and get into regular good society by one and the same means, and them so easy to one’s hand, ain’t such a bad look-out,’ thought Jonas. The latter considerations were only second to his avarice6; for, conscious that there was nothing in his person, conduct, character, or accomplishments7, to command respect, he was greedy of power, and was, in his heart, as much a tyrant8 as any laureled conqueror9 on record.
But he determined10 to proceed with cunning and caution, and to be very keen on his observation of the gentility of Mr Montague’s private establishment. For it no more occurred to this shallow knave11 that Montague wanted him to be so, or he wouldn’t have invited him while his decision was yet in abeyance12, than the possibility of that genius being able to overreach him in any way, pierced through his self-deceit by the inlet of a needle’s point. He had said, in the outset, that Jonas was too sharp for him; and Jonas, who would have been sharp enough to believe him in nothing else, though he had solemnly sworn it, believed him in that, instantly.
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警惕,留心; 警觉(性) | |
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