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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

CHAPTER IX
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It's no use denyin'! I say y' 'ave, sir! You, or some of ye.
I don't care about no Feverel! My witness there has been bribed.

The Bantam's been bribed," and he shivered his pipe with an energetic thump on the table--"bribed! I knows it! I could swear to't!"-- "Upon oath ?" Richard inquired, with a grave face.
"Ay, upon oath!" said the farmer, not observing the impertinence.
"I'd take my Bible oath on't! He's been corrupted, my principal witness! Oh! it's dam cunnin', but it won't do the trick.

I'll transport Tom Bakewell, sure as a gun.

He shall travel, that man shall.

Sorry for you, Mr.Feverel--sorry you haven't seen how to treat me proper--you, or yours.


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