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David Balfour, Second Part

CHAPTER IV
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I take a very high sense of this.

I will not deny that I consider the crime as directly personal to his Majesty." "And unfortunately, my lord," I added a little drily, "directly personal to another great personage who may be nameless." "If you mean anything by those words, I must tell you I consider them unfit for a good subject; and were they spoke publicly I should make it my business to take note of them," said he.

"You do not appear to me to recognise the gravity of your situation, or you would be more careful not to pejorate the same by words which glance upon the purity of justice.

Justice, in this country, and in my poor hands, is no respecter of persons." "You give me too great a share in my own speech, my lord," said I."I did but repeat the common talk of the country, which I have heard everywhere, and from men of all opinions as I came along." "When you are come to more discretion you will understand such talk is not to be listened to, how much less repeated," says the Advocate.

"But I acquit you of an ill intention.


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