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The evidence of his ability as a lawyer is to be found in the satisfactory manner in which for three Congresses he discharged the duties of the trying position of Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives.
But he knew now; in bitterness and shame and degradation he had learned. "I was infamous!" he said to himself. She began to talk in a low, embarrassed voice: "Sometimes I think of getting married. There's a young man a young lawyer he makes twenty-five a week, but it'll be years and years before he has a good living. A man doesn't get on fast in New York unless he has pull."
And after his death the lawyer so handled his son "that there was never sheep shorn in May, so near clipped of his fleece present, as he was of many to come." The Welsh were the most litigious people.
The question for the lawyer is, did the prisoner mean to kill? not, what were his motives for killing? The motives may, in a sense, have been good; as, for example, when a persecutor acts from a sincere desire to save souls. But the motive makes no difference to the sufferer. I am burnt equally, whether I am burnt from the best of motives or the worst.
The lawyer gazed at his visitor, apparently in doubt as to the man's veracity or sanity, and again there was silence. Finally Craft spoke. Another thought had come to him. "The boy's mother; she's living, ain't she?" "Burnham's widow? Yes; she's living." "Then I'll go to her! I'll make a new contract with her. The money'll be hers, now. I'll raise on my price! She'll pay it.
Ten minutes afterward the five men, shaken by such a shock, were again together in the garden, looking at one another with white but watchful faces. The lawyer seemed the most alert of the group; he was articulate if somewhat abrupt. "We must leave the body as it is and telephone for the police," he said.
And even if the police case were less strong, there is another grave fact which we cannot overlook." "You mean that Penreath refuses to say anything?" said Colwyn. "He appears to be somewhat indifferent to the outcome," returned the lawyer guardedly. "It is his silence which baffles me," said Colwyn.
"Yes, to breathe freely; to go abroad to Rome and continue to work on my picture." He remembered his doubts about his talent. "Well, it is all the same; I will simply breathe freely. First, I will go to Constantinople, then to Rome away from this jury duty. Yes, and to fix matters with the lawyer "
Hudson, who had never had the case put for her son with such ingenious hopefulness, and found herself disrelishing the singular situation of seeming to side against her own flesh and blood with a lawyer whose conversational tone betrayed the habit of cross-questioning. "My son, then," she ventured to ask, "my son has great what you would call great powers?" "To my sense, very great powers."
"He it is," said Bentham, "who, first of all institutional writers, has taught jurisprudence to speak the language of the Scholar and the Gentleman." Certainly, as Professor Dicey has remarked, "the book contains much real learning about our system of government." We are less concerned here with Blackstone as an antiquarian lawyer than as a student of political philosophy.
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