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And Ben told his adventure on Pike island, as we have heard him tell it, pretty much in the same words, for the judge and Mr. "Good Heavens! Mr. Jennings, what's the matter?" said a briefless one, starting up: this was Mr. Sharp, a personage on former occasions distinguished highly as a thieves' advocate, but now, unfortunately, out of work.
Blandureau's parents had consented to her marriage with Joseph Blondet upon one condition the penniless and briefless barrister must be an assistant judge. So, with the desire of fitting his son to fill the position, old M. Blondet racked his brains to hammer the law into his son's head by dint of lessons, so as to make a cut-and-dried lawyer of him.
"Did you hear him give his name?" asked Somerville, who was stroking his moustache. "No, we were too far off," explained the Babe. "But I'll swear it was Jack there couldn't be any mistake about that." "Perhaps not," agreed Somerville the Briefless. Somerville the Briefless called at the offices of Good Humour, in Crane Court, the following morning, and he also borrowed Miss Ramsbotham's Debrett.
Men have died as almost briefless barristers, toiling into old age in heartless wrangling, who had their chance of high places on the bench, but ambitiously resolved to wait for something higher, and so missed the tide. Men in the church have taken the wrong path at some critical time, and doomed themselves to all the pangs of disappointed ambition.
They had chosen their part, and she had chosen hers, and had thought that she might climb to the glory of wealth and rank, while they would have to marry hard-working clergymen and briefless barristers. She had often been called upon to vindicate to herself the part she had chosen, and had always done so by magnifying in her own mind the sin of the men with whom she had to deal.
The briefless barrister, who left in despair and became Attorney-General of New South Wales, grows homesick, surrenders his position, and returns. The young squire wearies in his beautiful country house, and his heart is fixed in the dingy chambers, which he cannot relinquish, and for which wealth cannot compensate him.
I saw you in a false light glorified by attributes that never belonged to you. 'In plain words, you thought me the owner of a big house and a fine income. I am neither; but I am the same Brian Wendover, for all that a briefless barrister, but with some talent; not without friends; and with as fair a chance of success as most young men of my rank.
Up till then nobody thought he had much in him walked up and held out his hand. "You don't remember me, Lady Mary," said the Briefless one. "I met you some years ago; we had a most interesting conversation Sir Francis Baldwin." The Lady Mary stood for a moment trying apparently to recollect. She was a handsome, fresh-complexioned woman of about forty, with frank, agreeable eyes.
Then they had often discussed together the objects of their ambition and future prospects; then Tom Towers was struggling hard to maintain himself, as a briefless barrister, by shorthand reporting for any of the papers that would engage him; then he had not dared to dream of writing leaders for The Jupiter, or canvassing the conduct of Cabinet ministers.
Victor and Colney had been champion duellists for the rosy and the saturnine since the former cheerfully slaved for a small stipend in the City of his affection, and the latter entered on an inheritance counted in niggard hundreds, that withdrew a briefless barrister disposed for scholarship from the forlornest of seats in the Courts.
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