Lord A. Indeed! and what right had sir Rowland to risk my property? Be assured I will exact every guinea of it.
O’Ded. That’s just what I told him. Sir, says I, his lordship is one of the flinty-hearted ones, and devil a thirteener will he forgive you—but, my lord, it will utterly ruin sir Rowland to replace it.
Lord A. Sir Rowland should have thought of that before he embarked my property in a hazardous enterprise. Inform him, sir, from me that I expect an instant account of it.
O’Ded. I shall do that thing, sir: but please to reflect a little—the money so laid out was honestly intended for your advantage.
Lord A. Another word sir, and I shall think it necessary to employ another attorney.
O’Ded. Sir, that’s a quietus—I’ve done—only remember that if you proceed to extremities, I warrant you’ll repent it.
Lord A. You warrant—
O’Ded. Ay, sir, and a warrant of attorney is reckoned decent good security.
Lord A. Since my uncle has so far forgotten his duty as a guardian, I have now an opportunity, which I shall not neglect, to bring him to a proper recollection—you have nothing to do but to obey my orders; and these are that the fourteen thousand pounds, of which he has defrauded my estate, shall be immediately repaid. Look to it, sir, and to the other affair you are entrusted with, and see that the law neglects no measures to recover what is due to me. [Exit.
O’Ded. And by St. Patrick, if the law gives you what is due to you, that’s what I’m too polite to mention. You’ve had your swing in iniquity long enough, and such swings are very apt to end in one that’s much too exalted for my notions. [Exit.