But, either from a secret feeling
towards his former friend or from his aversion to answer questions, this
evidence was on the whole not very satisfactory.
The bookseller proved the publication of that fatal volume whose
deceptive and glowing statements were alone sufficient to ensure
Popanilla's fate. It was in vain that the author avowed that he had
never written a line of his own book. This only made his imposture more
evident. The little philosopher with whom he had conversed at Lady
Spirituelle's, and who, being a friend of Flummery Flam, had now
obtained a place under Government, invented the most condemning
evidence. The Marquess of Moustache sent in a state paper, desiring to
be excused from giving evidence, on account of the delicate situation in
which he had been placed with regard to the prisoner; but he referred
them to his former Private Secretary, who, he had no doubt, would afford
every information. Accordingly, the President of Fort Jobation, who had
been brought over specially, finished the business.
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