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 you are not altogether insensible, if your northern life does make you a little sensitive on that point."

"I'll bet you a thousand dollars drawn up in writing that I can do as I said, bring you the handsomest, and the most innocent woman you ever saw, as my wife too, and we'll have the writings drawn up this afternoon and I'll set off to-morrow."

"Bring the certificate with you that we may know the banns have been proclaimed, for that is so unlike you to go up north to marry a puritan when there are so many southern beauties languishing for you, that I shall not take your word for it."

"Will you stake your thousand dollars? for I am in earnest."

"I see you are terribly in earnest, and I begin to repent for the girl's sake. I say Bill, it's too bad for you to palm yourself off on an innocent girl. I don't care for these loose characters that would just as lief share their nest with a quadroon as any way, but it's rather more'n I should want to answer for to set a snare for an innocent victim."

"Take care how you impeach my character or I'll have you up for defamation. I'll stand by my word, and if you don't, I'll send you a challenge!"

"That was a losing game for you, and for my part I wish we hadn't played it. Suppose now I share it with you, I'll give you five hundred back again if that will settle the matter."

"No money will settle it. You must either take my word or accept my challenge."

"Well then the guilt be on your head for I will wash my hands of it. Squire Tomkins will come in