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"Sir, you came to mock and jeer at me; and, besides, you are a liar, she
has not eloped."
"I don't understand you, Sir Thomas," said Gillespie, who saw at once by
his master's disturbed and wandering eye, that the language he uttered
was not addressed to him.
"What--what," exclaimed the latter, rising up and stretching himself,
in order to call back his scattered faculties. "Eh, Gillespie!--what
brought you here, sirrah? Are you too come to triumph over the ambitious
projector? What am I saying? I sent for you, Gillespie, did I not?"
"You did, Sir Thomas; and with regard to what we were speaking about--I
mean religion--I'll hould a pound note with Charley Corbet, when he
comes back, that I have less of it than him; and we'll both leave it to
your honor, as the best judge; now, if I have less of it than Charley, I
think I deserve the preference."
The baronet looked at him, or rather in the direction where he stood,
which induced Gillespie to suppose that he was paying the strictest
attention to what he said.


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