I felt so ornery and low down and mean, that I says to myself, my mind’s made up; I’ll hive that money for them or bust.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 26. Hucks feels bad for letting the Duke and King rob the sweet Wilks sisters in one of their most conniving scams. For the first time he acts on his conscience and decides to help the girls save their money. He is being hypocritical as he has never challenged or exposed the fraudster paid, despite knowing what they were from the start.