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We must hasten to add, however, that this violent crisis in the physical led to a perfect cure of the mental being. The barrister came out of his illness with no other sentiment than cold contempt for the treacherous Hungarian, a sentiment which did not even rise to a desire for vengeance.
And the captain argued, in his hopeful way, that Tucker's visit betrayed a weak point in Grafton's position. But the barrister shook his head and said that Grafton was too shrewd a rogue to tender me an estate if he feared me. It was Mr.
"But then I fear that I am a barrister not intending to succeed." "I am very sorry to hear it," said the judge. And then again the conversation flagged for a minute or two. "Have you ever seen him at a country assize town before, judge?" asked Felix. "Whom? Chaffanbrass? I do not remember that I have." "His coming down in this way is quite unusual, I take it." "Rather so, I should say.
The boy cast a frightened glance over his shoulder rather as if he fancied he might be overheard. "Of those letters," he replied. "I am sure it was that. I watched him and ... and I know. Every time he got one of those letters in the bluish envelopes, these curious fits of gloom came over him. Robin ..." "What, Bruce?" "I think he was being blackmailed!" The barrister nodded thoughtfully.
It was perfectly understood that a gentleman of the long robe might prosecute anybody for blasphemy against the Bible and its Deity, but the idea of a barrister having a copy of the "sacred volume" in his chambers was really too absurd for belief.
Her fingers writhed and strained against each other. "Do you mean that it is against your principles?" she said. "To defend a guilty man?" questioned the barrister slowly. She nodded two or three times as if for the moment utterance were beyond her. Field's eyes had not stirred from her face, yet still they had that legal look as if he searched for some hidden information. "No," he said finally.
He would, I am sorry to say, have won his bet; and yet I know that the 'Essays by a Barrister, though never widely circulated, have been highly valued by a small circle of readers. The explanation of their fate is not, I think, hard to give. They have, I think, really great merits.
But the fact is, I never looked upon him in the light of a business man, but only as a brilliant barrister, and eloquent pleader." "Yet, father, you know he must be a good business man to have collected such great stores of statistics as he has always at command." "Well, my love, I will go to-day and offer him the agency. Now what next?"
Now, Eustace had often, when in the Shorts' sitting-room in the lodging-house in the Strand heard the barrister James hold forth learnedly on the matter of wills, and, therefore, he naturally enough turned towards him in his recent dilemma.
"It is a change," he said, after so long a pause that my lady might have forgotten what she had been talking of, "it is a change! Some women would do a great deal to accomplish such a change as that." Lady Audley's clear blue eyes dilated as she fixed them suddenly on the young barrister.
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