text:  What passed between these worthies on this occasion--whether the attorney really persuaded Jack that if he set about it he would undertake to find him a flaw in his contract with Squire Bull which would enable him to take the matter of the usherships into his own hand and to do as he pleased; or whether Jack--as he seemed afterwards to admit in private--believed nothing of what the attorney told him but was resolved to take advantage of the Squire's good-nature and to run all risks as to the result 'tis hard to say