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you
In Do informing
recollect. beginning with
me that the judge's habite
made you exceedingly reluctant to
Shat
ask him to dinner
on the 23rd
of July about ten days before my arrival, the Judge had been overcome with wine and came into collision
with a
Sentry
at
house ?
your
A_ I recollect perfectly stating to you that the fudge had been overcome
with wine at
my
house
on the 23rd
of July, and that upon rising from the dinner table, and going into the Verandah he had staggered and fallen against the Lentry - I have since found however that I was entirely mistaken in regard to the Sentry, as will be seen in Captain. Bruce's perfectly plain Deposition, and I avail
myself of this opportunity.
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to observe how small is the value of
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private conversations given in a familiar and casual way, and without the most distant idea of such conversations being raked great distance of time on any-- subject whatsoever _ I now find and know that I avas entirely mistaken-
up at a
and that the mistake arose,
my seeing
from the Sentry walking about. at the time close to the Verandah but outside of it when the occurrence took place ._ It has been proved
down
on
coming into the occasion to go.
satisfactorily that open air, and having
the
steps of the Verandah, the Judge slipt and would have fallen if he had not been assisted by Captains Bruce - I have
no doubt that under
the immediate impression of what had occurred in this solitary
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