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§.2. Secret Plan for rendering the purchase useless
What is more—though such was the plan
at one time formed—and such the plan pursued
and executed—it is too much for me to affirm
that here never has been a time an instance point of time
in which the carrying a disposition to carry & the establishment into effect
and consequently the giving up the plan for
crushing it—may not have gained a temporary
ascendant in the mind of Mr Long
there were forces, and there were counterforces. The
establishment had its supporters as well as its opponents.
If personal interest had raised up
its opponents to the establishment, public spirit had
not been altogether wanting in providing it with
supporters. Though an impulse on the sinister
side had unquestionably at one time driven
the Honourable Secretary out of the plan of probity
and justice,+ an impulse from the opposite
quarter may at another time had at no time ever have driven
him back for the moment into the right course. From
the habitual and predominant breach of the
his having broken, over and over again, the
engagement assurances gi entered into with me, it by no
means follows, that there may not have been
occasional breaches of the assurances given to Lord
Belgrave. He who scruples not to break a
legal and valued engagement, is not the less likely
but rather the more likely, to break an illegal
and essentially void engagement, should the convenience or
fancied interest or convenience of the moment happen
to prompt the breach
of it
to
+ into the path course
of treachery to
which he automatically
adhered; it by
no means follows
that
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