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I believe that this Wiggins was one to whom poor Dalton behaved very kindly made him what he is, in fact and this is his reward! A pettifogger, by Heaven! a pettifogger! Seizing the Dalton estates, the scoundrel, and then putting Miss Dalton under lock and key! Why, the man's mad mad! yes, a raving maniac! He is, by Heaven!" "And now, Sir Lionel, when shall we be able to effect her release!"
You don't know better!" "The Lord is merciful." The marquis laughed that is, he tried, failed, and grinned. "Mr Cairns is in the dining room, my lord." "Bah! A low pettifogger, with the soul of a bullock! Don't let me hear the fellow's name. I 've been bad enough, God knows! but I haven't sunk to the level of his help yet.
We are enough of the same family to understand each other, perhaps; and the reason why I have not had you arrested on your arrival, why I had not a picket of soldiers in the first clump of evergreens, to await and prevent your coming I, who knew all, before whom that pettifogger, Romaine, has been conspiring in broad daylight to supplant me is simply this: that I had not made up my mind how I was to take my revenge.
This is to evade the Baconian method, humble and wise, and crawl back to the lazy and self-confident system of the ancients, that kept the world dark so many centuries. A pettifogger's skull, however, will serve the turn, provided that pettifogger has been bitten with an insane itch for scribbling about things so infinitely above his capacity as the fine arts.
Thus, to-day he would be studying, in the café, a work on algebra; to-morrow, 'Frederick the Great's Cavalry Regulations, and next the remarkable book, 'Cicero proved to be a Pettifogger and a Windbag: in Ten Discourses.
Room for no more doctors now, when the doctor must be an honest man, with a sound knowledge of the human body and a mastery of the methods of the sciences on which this knowledge depends. Room for no more doctors of the incompetent class, because the wiser times demand a better service. What is true in medicine applies also to the profession of law. The pettifogger must give place to the jurist.
Good soul! you don't know any better." "The Lord is merciful." The marquis laughed that is, he tried, failed, and grinned. "Mr. Cairns is in the dining-room, my lord." "Bah! A low pettifogger, with the soul of a bullock. Don't let me hear the fellow's name. I've been bad enough, God knows, but I haven't sunk to the level of his help yet.
"Yes, sir," I replied; "you say yourself you are clerk of peace to the county; and Gaffer Rutledge says you are a pettifogger; and in neither capacity are you entitled to be impertinent to a young lady of fashion." Miss Vernon laid her hand on my arm, and exclaimed, "Come, Mr. Osbaldistone, I will have no assaults and battery on Mr.
No doubt, that, under the present domineering of the pettifogger caste, there are hosts of men whose minds run in such small old grooves that they hold legal forms not a means, but an end: these will cry out against this proceeding as tyrannical.
The two new friends spent a most agreeable evening, Sam flattering himself he was squeezing Durfy beautifully into the service of his "big job," and Durfy flattering himself that this bumptious young pettifogger was the very person to get hold of to help him pay off all his old scores with Reginald Cruden.
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