He was up to that, too.

A man who's been in the patent-medicine trade will be up to anything from pitch-and-toss to wilful murder.

And that's a bit of hard truth for you.
Don't mind what they do--think they can carry off anything and talk themselves out of anything--all the world's a fool to them.

Business man, too, Cloete.

Came over with a few hundred pounds.