I gather from what you have not said that he is an unmitigated scoundrel."R. smiled with his pale blue eyes."I don't know that I'd go quite so far as that. He hasn't had the value of a public-school education. His ideas of playing the game aren't quite the same as yours and mine. I don't know that I would leave a gold cigarette-case about when he was in the neighbourhood, but if he had lost money to you at poker and he had pinched your cigarette-case, he would immediately pawn it to pay you.
-W. Somerset Maugham
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