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The counsel shook his head, and then began to say that the fact was that his client had an engagement, and his lordship would see it was the great race of the year. "I do not like these applications made in this random manner.
"Here was the secret of her blanched face, her shaken nerves, her peals of hysterical laughter on the next morning. But what had been in the box? What had she done with that? Of course, it must have been the old metal and pebbles which my client had dragged from the mere. She had thrown them in there at the first opportunity, to remove the last trace of her crime.
Stop, stop; that can never be evidence," and so on: the unfortunate junior, who fondly thought that with the pet witness now in the chair, he would be surely able to acquit his client, finds that he can hardly frame a question which his knowing foe will allow him to ask, and the great Mr.
That night Bradlaugh and his client got together a hundred good men and true and carried the house away from chimney to cornerstone, leaving nothing but the cellar.
On what ground he founded this opinion we do not know: whether he felt convinced that the local prejudice against his client and the influence of his enemies in the County of had mainly contributed to bring about the unfavorable result of the present hearing, and he hoped to escape these adverse agencies by a change of venue, or whether he counted on a change of public feeling after the first burst of excitement had subsided, to bear him through, or whether he had discovered the falsehood of the testimony of the sister-in-law, or, finally, whether it was that he had obtained a clearer and more favorable insight into the case, and recognized grounds of hope therein, it is impossible now to say.
The practitioner owes to his client, with unshaken fidelity, the exertion of all the industry and application of which he is capable to become perfect master of the questions at issue, to look at them in all their bearings, to place himself in the opposite interest, and to consider and be prepared as far as possible, for all that may be said or done on the contrary part.
"Think of it, gentlemen," he said, "here is a boy who waits until the case is closed, and we have a right to think that all they can bring against my client has been brought, and then this boy turns up to swear away his life. Let us be charitable, but let us be just. I must do my duty and to do it, I must speak.
"Wasn't the Belgian missionary a diplomatic official?" asked Mr. Tutt. "Evidently not sufficiently so," replied his partner. "Anyhow, in Mongolia there are only two methods sanctified by tradition by which a man may secure a wife capture or purchase." "Well, didn't our client capture the actress?" "Only with her consent which I assume would be collusion under the French law," said Tutt.
One of these was a note, dated from the Adelphi a few days before the tragedy, and written in a stiff, legal hand. It contained only a few lines: "DEAR SIR, "My client will be happy to meet you at any time on Thursday you may be pleased to appoint, either here or at your own address. Please reply, making an appointment, by return of post. "Yours faithfully,
When the relation of solicitor and client exists, and a security is taken by the solicitor from his client, the presumption is that the transaction is unfair; and the onus of proving its fairness is upon the solicitor. A man ought to be very careful of placing himself in a position to have any of his transactions regarded in that light.
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