[Valentine M’Clutchy, The Irish Agent by William Carleton]@TWC D-Link bookValentine M’Clutchy, The Irish Agent CHAPTER IX 9/23
The man that neglects them wilfully, is a man I won't depend upon--and two of your neighbors were absent from parade on Wednesday week.
Now, it's really too bad to expect that I, or any other gentleman in the country, will exert ourselves so strenuously to sustain and extend our own principles, or! to speak plainly, to keep them up--to maintain our ascendancy,--if we cannot reckon upon the earnest and cordial support of those for whose sake we take all this trouble--upon my honor it's a shame." "It is a shame, Captain, and I say here's one," placing his hand upon his heart, "of the right kidney.
By the holy William, there is." "We're all so, your worship," replied Sharpe, "and sure every one knows it--but, plaise your honor, what's to be done about Harman ?" "Why, prosecute him for the murder of course." "But then," said one of them, "sure Harman didn't murder him, Captain--among ourselves, it was all accident." M'Clutchy seemed surprised at this, and after hearing their individual opinions, which indeed, conflicted very much, some positively asserting that he did, and others that he did not, murder the man, he began to view the matter in a somewhat different and more cautious light.
He mused for some time; however, and after a second and more deliberate investigation, finding that there were two for the murder and only one against it, he at length took their informations, resolving to bring the matter to trial at all hazards.
The warrant for Harmon's apprehension was accordingly issued, and entrusted to a dozen of the most resolute fellows in his corps; who so far enabled our magistrate to fulfil his intention, that they lodged his enemy in the county prison that very night. The next morning, when reading the papers, our Captain was not a little surprised at reading in one of them an advertisement to the following effect: "To the public--found, in the office of Mr.Solomon M'Slime, a Bank of Ireland Note, of large amount.
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