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"Do you think, now," persisted Corbet, not satisfied with the priest's
answer, and following up his interrogatory, "do you think, I say, that
I wouldn't 'a' dragged him down like a dog in the kennel, long ago, if I
knew where his brother's son was."
"From your hatred to Sir Thomas Gourlay," replied the other, "I think it
likely you would have tumbled him long since if you could."
"Why," exclaimed Corbet, with another sardonic and derisive grin,
"that's a proof of how little you know of a man's heart. Do you forget
what I said awhile ago about the black villain--that I have been windin'
myself about him for years, until I get him fairly into my power? When
that time comes, you'll see what I'll do."
"But will that time soon come?" asked the other. "Recollect that you are
now an old man, and that old age is not the time to nourish projects of
vengeance. Death may seize you--may take you at a short notice--so that
it is possible you may never live to execute your devilish purpose on
the one hand, nor the act of justice toward Lady Gourlay on the other.


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