The knavery and extravagance of their stock-jobbing projects are sufficiently known, and the explication of them would be foreign to the present subject.

他们的股票交易项目的狡猾和奢侈是众所周知的， 对它们的解释对当前的主题来说是陌生的。

Thevenin, poor soul, was in great feather: he had done a good stroke of knavery that afternoon in the Faubourg St. Jacques, and all night he had been gaining from Montigny.

戴维南，可怜的人，精神抖擞：那天下午他在圣雅克郊区干了一件大事，整晚都在蒙蒂尼的手下。