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 good errand, Cool, you are sending me to do justice to the oppressed and injured; but notwithstanding that, I see myself come in for £200 Scots, yet I begged a little time to consider the matter. And since I find you are as much master of reason now as ever, and more than ever, I will reason upon the matter in its general view, and then with respect to the expediency of my being the messenger; and this I will do with all manner of frankness. From what you have said, I sec clearly what your present condition is, so that I need not ask any more questions upon that head; and you need not bid me take courage, and be not afraid of you, for at this moment I am no more afraid of you than a new-born child.

COOL. Well, say on.

OGIL. Tell me then, since such is your ability that you can fly a thousand miles in the twinkling of an eye, if you desire to do the oppressed justice be as great as you pretend, what is the reason you don't fly to the coffers of some rich Jew or Banker, where are thousands of gold and silver, invisibly lift and invisibly return it to the coffers of the injured? And since your wife has sufficient fund, and more, why cannot you empty her purse, invisibly, to make these people amends?

COOL. Because I cannot.

OGIL. If these things be rectified, you would be easy and happy; I don't at all credit that, for whatever justice may be done to the