However, as a set-off to that, I pledge
you my honor that no man can be more serious when it is necessary than
myself. For instance, you let out a matter to me the other night that
you probably forget now. You needn't stare--I am serious enough and
honorable enough to keep as an inviolable secret everything of the kind
that a man may happen to disclose in an unguarded moment."
"Go on, Hycy, I don't forget it--I don't, upon my soul."
"I allude to M'Mahon's farm in Ahadarra."
"I don't forget it; but you know, Hycy, my boy, I didn't mention either
M'Mahon or Ahadarra."
"You certainly did not mention them exactly; but, do you think I did
not know at once both the place and the party you allude to? My word and
honor, I saw them at a glance."
"Very well, go on with your word and honor;--you are right, I did mean
M'Mahon and Ahadarra--proceed, most accomplished, and most moral--"
"Be quiet, Harry. Well, you have your eye upon that farm, and you say
you have a promise of it."
"Something like it; but the d--d landlord, Chevydale, is
impracticable--so my uncle says--and doesn't wish to disturb the
M'Mahons, although he has been shown that it is his interest to do
so--but d--n the fellow, neither he nor one of his family ever look to
their interests--d--n the fellow, I say."
"Don't curse or swear, most moral.
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