Hi, friends. What do you understand from the underlined part? What is the meaning in simple words?<br/><br/><br/><br/>He had once been a penny-pinching chandler, people said, selling candles and gin from a corner shop, and <b><u>no more honest than he had to be</u></b>. <br/><br/><br/><br/>Thank you, in advance<br/><br/>Hossein