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"Will you swear you did not say so?" "I think I might have been able to go down to the country, for I was getting on very well in Monmouth-street."
"You were going on very comfortably in the cellar?" "I was paying my way."
"Will you swear that you have not said, that after the trial was over you would get 500l. or 600l., and would retire to Scotland, and would not care for anything?" "I don't recollect anything of the kind. I cannot swear I may not have said so. I do not believe I ever said anything of the kind, but I can't swear. I have sworn already to speak the truth, but I do not recollect anything of the kind."
"Now, sir, again upon your solemn oath, I ask, have you not used these words, or words to this effect—that, if all went on right, you would have 500l. or 600l., and retire to Scotland, and not care for anybody?" "Never, to my knowledge."
"Never, to your knowledge? That is the only answer you can give me?" "Never, to my knowledge."
"Have not you said so within the last fortnight?" "Never, to my knowledge."
"Have you said so within a week?" "Never, to my knowledge."
"Have you said so within the last 48 hours?" "Never, to my knowledge."
"Have you said so within the last 24 hours?" "Not to my knowledge."
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"How was it that you left Mr Norton's?" "To tell the truth, I got a drop too much (laughter). It was a Court-day, and we generally have a drop at such a time. Mr and Mrs Norton fell out in the carriage, and of course they put the spite upon me, and so I was discharged" (laughter).
"Then you had got a drop too much?" "Why, I like to speak the truth, and I confess I had (laughter). Mrs Norton was very cross, and you could not please her very easily. She was cross because the black horse happened to gallop, and I could not get him into a trot; horses will break sometimes, you can't help it" (laughter).
"And they put the spite on you?" "Oh, it is not the first time I have had it like that."
"You like to speak the truth sometimes; you took a drop too much, eh?" "I don't know who does not at times. We are all alike for that, masters and servants" (great laughter).
"Did not Mrs Norton complain that you had drunk too much V "Mrs Norton never complained of that, because I was a good servant, though I did take a drop too much; a very good servant, and you know gentlemen do the same sometimes."
"Have you not had a sabre cut in your head!" "No, thank God; but I had a touch on my hip at Waterloo."
"How often did you take a drop too much, while in Mr Norton's
