[Valentine M’Clutchy, The Irish Agent by William Carleton]@TWC D-Link bookValentine M’Clutchy, The Irish Agent CHAPTER XII 5/21
You shall bring the warrant to Mr.M'Clutchy who will back it, and put it into the hands of those who will lose little time in having it executed." "I am sorry, sir, that my conscience doesn't justify me in doin' what you wish." "What do you mean by conscience, sir ?" asked the other, getting warm, "if you have a conscience you will have no scruple in punishing a man who is an open enemy to truth, to the gospel, and to the spread of it through a benighted land.
How can you reconcile it to your conscience to let such a man escape." "Simply by forgiving him, sir--by lettin' the great, big, ignorant hathen, have the full benefit of a gospel forgiveness.
That's what I mean, sir, and surely it stands to sense that I couldn't prosecute him wid these feelin's, barrin' I'd go against the Word." "O'Drive," said Lucre, evidently mortified at Darby's obstinacy, "one of two things is true; either you are utterly ignorant, perhaps, with every disposition to know them, of the sanctions and obligations of religion, or you are still a Papist at heart, and an impostor.
I tell you, sir, once more, that it is upon religious grounds that you ought to prosecute this wild priest; because in doing so, you render a most important service to religion and morality, both of which are outraged in his person.
You ought to know this.
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