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"Have you, as lawyer or as citizen, a case against Mr. Rawdon?"
"As a contributor to the revenue of the country, I think I have."
"How?"
"Well, he is making money by cheating the Government."
"Where is your proof?"
"Look at what Rufus said, at the doings of that bogus farmer, at these
three teams on the road."
"Mere inferences based on circumstantial evidence."
"They're things that should be looked into, though."
"Perhaps so, but is it your business to do so? Are you a whiskey
informer?"
"Come now, Wilks, that's a pretty bad name to call a man."
"That may be, but it seems to denote the role you have set before
yourself."
"I'd like to run that brute into the ground."
"Worse and worse; you are going to prosecute, not from principle, but
from malice."
"I'm going to show up a scoundrel."
"If that is your work you will never lack employment. But, seriously,
Corry, _cui bono?_"
"To keep him off Miss Du Plessis' land, to prevent him marrying her, to
hinder him corrupting the farmers and causing their farms to go to waste
with smuggled liquor."
"As you like, but Wordsworth says:--
Whatever be the cause, 'tis sure that they who pry and pore
Seem to meet with little gain, seem less happy than before.
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