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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Lies and Deceit Quotes Page 9
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #25 "Well, I'd been selling an article to take the tartar off the teeth – and it does take it off, too, and generly the enamel along with it – but I stayed about one night longer than I ought to, and was just in the act of sliding out when I ran across you on the trail this side of town, and you told me they were coming, and begged me to help you to get off. So I told you I was expecting trouble myself, and would scatter out WITH you. That's the whole yarn – what's yourn? (19.14) |
Even before he meets the king, the duke has made a living out of cons. Check out our discussion of these two men in their "Character Analysis."
| Quote #26 "Gentlemen," says the young man, very solemn, "I will reveal it to you, for I feel I may have confidence in you. By rights I am a duke!" (19.26) |
The duke tries to establish himself as superior to the king by using deception.
| Quote #27 "Bilgewater, I am the late Dauphin!" (19.40) |
The rank of "king" is superior over that of "duke," just as the king is a worse con man than the duke.
