It will be a great deal more satisfactory to me if you use language accurately.

Say that 'damnable Simpkins' if you're quite sure he deserves it; but don't call him damned until he is." "He does deserve it." "If he does," said Meldon--"I'm not, of course, certain yet that he does--but if he does, I'll do my best to see that he gets it; but I won't act in the dark.

I have a sense of justice and a conscience, and I absolutely decline to persecute and harry a man simply because you don't like him.

Who is this Simpkins?
Is he any kind of government inspector ?" "He's an agent that they've sent down here to manage the Buckley estates." "Well, I don't see anything wrong about that.

I suppose there must be an agent.