Blindfold you! after that, the man that would attempt it DESARVES to be shot; and I'd have no sincerer pleasure in life than shooting him this moment, was he my best friend.

But it's not Clonbrony, or your father, my lord, would act that way, no more than Sir Terence O'Fay--there's the schedule of the debts,' drawing a paper from his bosom; 'and I'll swear to the lot, and not a man on earth could do that but myself.' Lord Colambre opened the paper.

His father turned aside, covering his face with both his hands.
'Tut, man,' said Sir Terence; 'I know him now better than you; he will stand, you'll find, the shock of that regiment of figures--he is steel to the backbone, and proof spirit.' 'I thank you, my dear father,' said Lord Colambre, 'for trusting me thus at once with a view of the truth.

At first sight it is, I acknowledge, worse than I expected; but I make no doubt that, when you allow me to examine Mr.Garraghty's accounts and Mr.Mordicai's claims, we shall be able to reduce this alarming total considerably, my dear father.

You think we learn nothing but Latin and Greek at Cambridge; but you are mistaken.' 'The devil a pound, nor a penny,' said Sir Terence; 'for you have to deal with a Jew and old Nick; and I'm not a match for them.