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Hewitt had observed it in other clients, but it did not disturb him. "First," he said, "you must tell me your difficulty. You say you have been robbed of fifteen thousand pounds " "Tiamonts, Mr. Hewitt tiamonts! All from the case here is the case, empty " "Let us be methodical. We will shut the door and sit down." Hewitt pressed his client into a chair and produced his note-book.
The Aristocracy after the Battle of Pharsalus In the same way as the client communities submitted to the victor of Pharsalus, the tail of the constitutional party all who had joined it with half a heart or had even, like Marcus Cicero and his congeners, merely danced around the aristocracy like the witches around the Brocken approached to make their peace with the new monarch, a peace accordingly which his contemptuous indulgence readily and courteously granted to the petitioners.
It was therefore not improper that the man of the paraphe and a wondrous paraphe his signature had, flourishing from edge to edge of a foolscap page, in woolly and laborious curves should, when called upon next morning, treat his best client to his best office manners.
Esquire Chip next informed his client, that her case must now lie over till the next session of the court, some months in the future. 'The law must take its course, said he. 'What! wait another court! wait months? said the persevering mother. 'Why, long before that time, he can go clear off, and take my child with him-no one knows where.
The legislature was finally appealed to for relief and passed a statute that an opinion formed from mere rumor should not be a ground of challenge. When a capital case is coming on, great pains will often be taken by the prisoner's counsel to ascertain the characteristics and disposition toward his client of each of the jurors who have been summoned to court.
The room smelt of cigar smoke, while the office, through which the client must pass to reach it, was odoriferous of ancient ledgers. Half a dozen clerks were seated in the office, which was simply furnished and innocent of iron safes. If a client entered, one of the six, whose business it was, looked up, while the other five continued to give their attention to the books before them.
There were conditions annexed to this liberality, but he was of opinion that his new client would find nothing either excessive or dishonourable in the terms; and he repeated these two words with emphasis, as though he desired to commit himself to nothing more. Francis asked their nature.
It is, indeed, an axiom of the bar that women invariably lie upon the stand, and the whole effort of a barrister who has one for a client is devoted to keeping her within bounds, that the obtuse suspicions of the male jury may not be unduly aroused.
Pedgift mutely waiting; his face and manner expressive alike of that silent sense of the value of his own time which every patient who has visited a great doctor, every client who has consulted a lawyer in large practice, knows so well. "Have you heard the news, sir?" stammered Mr.
"No wonder," retorted Thurlow, with a grunt and a sneer, "since he was your client. Why did you not tell me that sooner? It would kill me to have such a fellow as you for my attorney."
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