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Book, page 151 / 300 'More shame for him!' 'He never, I suppose, looks over his accounts, or understands them.' 'More shame for him!' He listens to foolish reports, or misrepresentations, perhaps. He is at a distance, and cannot find out the truth.' 'More shame for him!' 'Take it quietly, my dear; we have the comfort of a good conscience. The agency may be taken from me by this lord; but the sense of having done my duty, no lord or man upon earth can give or take away.' 'Such a letter!' said Mrs. Burke, taking it up again. 'Not even the civility to write with his own hand!--only his signature to the scrawl--looks as if it was written by a drunken man, does not it, Mr. Evans?' said she, showing the letter to Lord Colambre, who immediately recognised the writing of Sir Terence O'Fay. 'It does not look like the hand of a gentleman, indeed,' said Lord Colambre. 'It has Lord Clonbrony's own signature, let it be what it will,' said Mr. Burke, looking closely at it; 'Lord Clonbrony's own writing the signature is, I am clear of that.' Lord Clonbrony's son was clear of it also; but he took care not to give any opinion on that point. 'Oh, pray, read it, sir, read it,' said Mrs. Burke, pleased by his tone of indignation; 'read it, pray; a gentleman may write a bad hand, but no GENTLEMAN could write such a letter as that to Mr. Burke--pray read it, sir; you who have seen something of what Mr. Burke has done for the town of Colambre, and what he has made of the tenantry and the estate of Lord Clonbrony.'
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