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O! you are quite ignorant of a certain misworded testament, the defects of which, by the management of a clever attorney, might be turned to thine own advantage: thou pleadest ignorant, very ignorant of all this.

Ha, ha, ha! he will be an impudent fellow indeed if he, before my face, plead ignorant of that which he told me without reserve some three or four years ago.

Is it possible? did Hardy betray me then? (To .)

No; but his clerk employed to copy the deed repeated to me soon after the very passage, word for word.

And thou hast known it all this while, and never sought to take advantage of it till lately?

And you have known me all this while, nay, from my childhood, Sir Cameron, and can yet suppose that I should wish to wrest from you by law what natural justice and the intentions of the testator fairly bestow upon you.