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"A say, right agane! D---- me, bit A'll back that too!"and he nodded
confidently, and looked around the room once more. "A wull, d---- my
blood, bit no man can say agane it. A'm married to his daughter; an', by
the sun that shines A'll still stan' up for my father-in-laa."
"Mr. Carson," said the Colonel, "can you disprove these facts? Can you
show that you did not expel M'Evoy from his farm, and put the husband of
your illegitimate daughter into it? That you did not receive his rent,
decline giving him a receipt, and afterwards compel him to pay twice,
because he could not produce the receipt which you withheld?"
"Gentlemen," said Carson, not directly replying to the Colonel, "there
is a base conspiracy got up against me; and I can perceive, moreover,
that there is evidently some unaccountable intention on the part of
Colonel B. to insult my feelings and injure my character. When paltry
circumstances that have occurred above ten years ago, are raked up in my
teeth, I have little to say, but that it proves how very badly off
the Colonel must have been for an imputation against my conduct and
discretion as his agent, since he finds himself compelled to hunt so far
back for a charge."
"That is by no means the heaviest charge I have to bring against you,"
replied the Colonel. "There is no lack of them; nor shall you be able to
complain that they are not recent, as well as of longer standing. Your
conduct in the case of poor honest M'Evoy here is black and iniquitous.
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