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D it, don't you see it is a threat, sirs! a threat to 'sassinate me? I want to know, by the eternal gods, if a senator in this house this here body is to be threatened in this here way? You see, Mr. Was that what General Jackson fit the battle of New Orleans for, down yonder in old Chemut's field?
Ain't that thar hell-fired letter to me, sir a senator, sir, representing three parishes, sir before this House? This excited a general laugh, and, at the same time, the ire of Moore. "By G , sir; I don't know if it wouldn't benefit the State if these hell-fired gamblers were to 'sassinate the whole of this House or parliament." The laugh continued, and Moore left the Senate in a rage.
"I canna think ony one would be coward enough to murder him," he said, drawing himself up. M'Adam leant forward. There was a nasty glitter in his eye, and his face was all a-tremble. "Ye'd no think ony one 'd be cooard enough to set the son to murder the father. Yet some one did set the lad on to 'sassinate me. He failed at me, and next, I suppose, he'll try at Wullie!"
"I don't doubt," he said carelessly, "but what we could pay ourselves well for the job, spoil the 'Gyptians, you know, forage on the enemy. Plenty of portables in them houses, eh!" "I never said" Sam spoke slowly and deliberately "I wanted to 'sassinate him, or rob him, or burgle him.
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