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Balais concluded a most energetic speech with a peroration of great brilliancy, in which Richard and Harry were exhibited like a transparency in the bright colors of Youth, and Hope, and Passion, and finally sat down amidst what would have been a burst of applause but for the harsh voice of the usher nipping it in the bud by proclaiming silence. There was no need for his doing that when Mr.
If the prisoner at the bar had not himself taken it out of the prosecutor's strong-box, who had? Such was the form in which the case was left for the jury. "It's UP," whispered Mr. Weasel behind his hand to Mr. Balais. Mr. Balais nodded indifferently; the case was over so far as he was concerned, and he was not going to employ significant action gratuitously.
"Well, well, this is a matter of very little consequence though I see my learned friend is making a copious note of it," said Mr. Balais, gayly. "The main point is what, as you have told us, did occur that you found out the secret somehow. When you got it, I suppose you opened the box?" No answer, save from Mr. Smoothbore, who observed, tartly: "You have no right to assume that, Sergeant."
Weasel had foretold, regarded her through his double glasses with critical approval; for a most excellent judge he was of female attractions. Mr. Balais smiled triumphantly at the jury. "Did I not tell you," he seemed to say, "that my client is guiltless in this matter? Here is Truth herself come to witness in his favor. Bless her!"
"It seems to me you are rather fond of a good thing," returned the other, scornfully, but with a like precaution. "Hem!" said the judge again. "Is there any one in court able to give any information concerning the antecedents of the prisoner?" "We have no witnesses to character, my lud," said Mr. Balais, gravely; "we had hoped it would not have been necessary."
Smoothbore and Balais get all there is between them, confound them! I say, just pass that claret." Not another word about Richard. The judge himself had forgotten him except as a case in his notes. The jury forgot him in a week. A murder of a shipwrecked sailor happened soon afterward on that coast, and became the talk of the country-side in his place.
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