"But I send almost all of my hard-earned money home to my mother, to keep her fed and healthy!" Hyacinthe said, keeping to the wide-eyed routine even though he was actually speaking truthfully for once. "Surely you must have pity on a hard-working lad like myself who just wants to care for his mother, so cruelly used by people."

Trust a Tsingano to speak truth carefully couched as lies.