"It does not amuse me to trifle with the truth." "Why do you make me your confidant ?" Arnold asked.
"Because it is my intention to make a convert of you," Sabatini said calmly.
Arnold shook his head.
"I am afraid that that is quite hopeless," he answered.

"I have not the excuse of a country which needs my help, although I have more than one relative," he added, with a smile, "whom I should not mind taking by the throat." "One needs no excuse," Sabatini murmured.
"When one--" He hesitated.
"I have no scruples," Sabatini interrupted, "in using the word which seems to trouble you.

Perhaps I am a robber.

What, however, you do not appreciate is that nine-tenths of the people in the world are in the same position." "I cannot admit that either," Arnold protested.
"It is, then, because you have not considered the matter," Sabatini declared.

"You live in a very small corner of the world and you have accepted a moral code as ridiculously out of date as Calvinism in religion.