[Roughing It Part 8. by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookRoughing It Part 8. CHAPTER LXXIX 46/51
Mr.Wiegand you've got to do better than that.
You are not the man who can pull wool over my eyes." "That, sir, is the only retraction I can write." "No it isn't, sir, and if you so much as say so again you do it at your peril, for I'll thrash you to within an inch of your life, and, by--, sir, I don't pledge myself to spare you even that inch either.
I want you to understand I have asked you for a very different paper, and that paper you've got to sign." "Mr.Winters, I assure you that I do not wish to irritate you, but, at the same time, it is utterly impossible for me to write any other paper than that which I have written.
If you are resolved to compel me to sign something, Philip Lynch's hand must write at your dictation, and if, when written, I can sign it I will do so, but such a document as you say you must have from me, I never can sign.
I mean what I say." "Well, sir, what's to be done must be done quickly, for I've been here long enough already.
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