"But you had no right to the goods; you paid nothing for them."
"It is the way they do. If a rich customer goes into one of those big stores, they ask him a big price. If a poorer one comes in, and they think he knows what a thing is worth, they don't ask him so much. What is that but stealing?"
"Their doing wrong does not make it right for you to do wrong. What did you do with what you took?"
"Sometimes I used it, and sometimes I sold it at people's doors. I went out West a great many times with a lot."
"What did you intend to do with your money?"
"Buy a big house, and live in the fashion, when the childer get up."
"Do you think you would enjoy a house bought with money got in that way?"
"Most of the big houses are bought with money got in that way. I know many a person as has carried on the business for years, and got rich by it."
"The business of shoplifting! then the crime has become dignified into a business." Rather a liberal translation of the example set, I thought.
"Did your husband know what you were doing?"