- Nicholas Warleggan: [Speaking about Poldark] Do you have a case against him?
- George Warleggan: We have three or four good witnesses who'll swear against him.
- Nicholas Warleggan: If they don't, they won't be paid.
- George Warleggan: One's a discharged servant nursing his grudge as you nurse your guineas.
- Nicholas Warleggan: Now, speakin' of that, how mu...
- George Warleggan: Only a guinea or two, Father.
- Nicholas Warleggan: Mmm. I want to see Poldark hang, but I don't want to be bankrupted.
- George Warleggan: You have great faith in hope, Father. Put more faith in cash, and you won't be disappointed.
- Francis Poldark: But at least allow me to wish you well for the trial.
- Ross Poldark: Whatever happens there depends on God and a good lawyer.
- Francis Poldark: [Half drunkenly] Are you here for the elections or to see Ross hanged, drawn, and quartered?
- George Warleggan: For the elections as everyone else.
- Francis Poldark: Ah, have you got money invested in the elections as well? My dear George, you've got your dirty little fingers in every pie, haven't you?
- George Warleggan: Francis, I don't...
- Francis Poldark: You know, I doubt there's a profitable pie in the whole of Cornwall that you Warleggan blackbirds aren't comfortably baked in.
- Nicholas Warleggan: What's this?
- George Warleggan: A list of our witnesses bought and paid for.
- Nicholas Warleggan: Eight? How much did they cost?
- George Warleggan: [Slighly exasperated] You can't have people hanged for nothing, Father!