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over this here stifficate, and who but you ought to go in for damages on my account agin the Steamer? For (as I says under my mark) I have had trouble enough along of you and your friend. If you, Lawyer Lightwood, had backed me good and true, and if the t’other Governor had took me down correct (I says under my mark), I should have been worth money at the present time, instead of having a barge-load of bad names chucked at me, and being forced to eat my words, which is a unsatisfying sort of food wotever a man’s appetite! And when you mention the middle of the night, t’otherest Governor,” growled Mr. Riderhood, winding up his monotonous summary of his wrongs, “throw your eye on this here bundle under my arm, and bear in mind that I’m a walking back to my lock, and that the Temple laid upon my line of road.”