goes straight round to the creditors and buys them all up,
which he did easy enough, seeing the half of them never expected to see
their money out of Sir Condy's hands. Then, when this base-minded limb
of the law, as I afterwards detected him in being, grew to be sole
creditor over all, he takes him out a custodiam on all the denominations
and sub-denominations, and even carton and half-carton upon the estate
[See GLOSSARY 27]; and not content with that, must have an execution
against the master's goods and down to the furniture, though little
worth, of Castle Rackrent itself. But this is a part of my story I'm not
come to yet, and it's bad to be forestalling: ill news flies fast enough
all the world over.

To go back to the day of the election, which I never think of but with
pleasure and tears of gratitude for those good times: after the election
was quite and clean over, there comes shoals of people from all parts,
claiming to have obliged my master with their votes, and putting him in
mind of promises which he could never remember himself to have made: one
was to have a freehold for each of his four sons; another was to have
a renewal of a lease; another an abatement; one came to be paid ten
guineas for a pair of silver buckles sold my master on the hustings,
which turned out to be no better than copper gilt; another had a long
bill for oats, the half of which never went into the granary to my
certain knowledge, and the other half was not fit for the cattle to
touch; but the bargain was made the week before the election, and the
coach and saddle-horses were got into order for the day, besides a vote
fairly got by them oats; so no more reasoning on that head. But then
there was no end to them that were telling Sir Condy he had engaged to
make their sons excisemen, or high constables, or the like; and as for
them that had bills to give in for liquor, and beds, and straw, and
ribands, and horses, and post-chaises for the gentlemen freeholders that
came from all parts and other counties to vote for my master, and were
not, to be sure, to be at any charges, there was no standing against all
these; and, worse than all, the gentlemen of my master's committee, who
managed all for him, and talked how they'd bring him in without costing
him a penny, and subscribed by hundreds very genteelly, forgot to pay
their subscriptions, and had laid out in agents' and lawyers' fees and
secret service money to the Lord knows how much; an