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When we get information that a man is going to be hounded down by any of these detectives and we have private ways of knowing these things we just go to that man, and if he is willing to become one of our clients, we take him into our charge; and our business, after that, is to keep him informed of just what is being done against him.
What did the land cost an acre?" "Averaged a dollar and seventy-five cents." "Huh!... Not so bad. Now tend to Crane and his quiet friend." They arrived in due time, accompanied by their lawyer. "Mr. Bones," said the lawyer, "you have certain options that my clients wish to purchase.
At bottom, however, politics were his only dream, and he had even formulated a complete programme of intentional vagueness, which his clients and creatures spread abroad with an air of rapturous mystery.
Things hadn't gone quite to suit him during the year. He had lost two of his most profitable clients men upon whom for two years previously he had been able to count for a steady income. It is true that he had lost them by winning their respective suits, and had made two strong friends by so doing; but, as he once put it to Mrs.
"It's almost worth being a man to make your life count for something like that." "I want you to make out a list of books for me to get and I 'll go down-town this afternoon. I suppose you 've a pretty good law library yourself?" "I had the beginning of one. I sold it." "What did you do that for?" "My practice was n't big enough to support it. But you you 'll not be bothered with lack of clients."
The joy of bargaining and his quick and perhaps dangerously frank interest in clients as personalities, made him a most beguiling salesman; as a result he became, in an astonishingly short time, a real force in the office; all of which hurried him into maturity. But the most important factor in his happiness was his adoration of Eleanor.
This very circumstance has been the means of introducing me to the notice of three men, all eminent in their profession, and each with the same inclination to serve me, according to their respective powers a solicitor, a barrister, and a judge. He saw the trick that was played by Nameless, and took occasion afterwards to recommend me to several of his own clients.
"You will frighten mamma, and she will imagine at once that I still wish to enter Saint-Cyr. But I assure you, little mother, you may be tranquil. Since you wish it, your respectful and obedient son will become a lawyer without clients, who will paint daubs during his spare moments. In reality, I should much prefer a horse and a sword and a squadron of hussars. But no matter!
Before Mr Haredale could answer, the sharp closing of a door and drawing of its bolts, gave notice that the Lord Mayor had retreated to his bedroom, and that further remonstrance would be unavailing. The two clients retreated likewise, and the porter shut them out into the street. 'That's the way he puts me off, said the old gentleman, 'I can get no redress and no help.
It was almost ludicrous to behold the utter demoralization into which Luckstone's clients were thrown. Britz had brought them out of their coverts and forced them into the open and instantly they started fighting among themselves. Luckstone made one ineffectual effort to re-unite them in solid rank against the attacking police enemy, then he also surrendered. "Let Beard talk!" he exclaimed.
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