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be more fair than the system, and I shall 

 make certain persons stare when I assert nothmg 

 is more honourable than the transactions usually 

 carried on in the business of such places. 

 " Honour ! " I think I hear many exclaim, " hon- 

 our in a betting-list keeper!" Yes, I flinch 

 not from the word honour, which, though it 

 carries with it aristocratic ideas, is in reality 

 nothing more than is met by the plebeian words 

 "fairness of transaction." It is only that in 

 speaking of the nobleman or gentleman courtesy 

 and custom induce us to use the term honour. 

 In speaking of inferior persons we call it hon- 

 esty or fairness of purpose. It is a distinction 

 without a difference. 



