Life on the Mississippi • Paragraph 863
Stage 1 of 6

Read it through once

An unpromising beginning for a fraudulent career. We started to the supper room, and met two other men whom I had known elsewhere. How odd and unfair it is: wicked impostors go around lecturing under my _Nom De Guerre_ and nobody suspects them; but when an honest man attempts an imposture, he is exposed at once.