[St. Ronan’s Well by Sir Walter Scott]@TWC D-Link bookSt. Ronan’s Well CHAPTER VIII 7/11
Why, thou suspicious monitor, have I not repeated a hundred times that I repent sincerely of the foolish rencontre, and am determined to curb my temper, and be on my guard in future--And what need you come upon me, with your long lesson about execration, and punishment, and fratricide, and so forth ?--You deal with an argument as a boy does with the first hare he shoots, which he never thinks dead till he has fired the second barrel into her.
What a fellow you would have been for a lawyer! how long you would have held forth upon the plainest cause, until the poor bothered judge was almost willing to decide against justice, that he might be revenged on you.
If I must repeat what I have said twenty times, I tell you I have no thoughts of proceeding with this fellow as I would with another.
If my father's blood be in his veins, it shall save the skin his mother gave him.
And so come, without more parade, either of stipulation or argument.
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