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Updated: June 30, 2025
On Friday morning at ten o'clock the vehicles began to arrive the motor of the country gentleman, the dog-cart of the neighboring rector, and the brougham of the retired general. It was the General who presided. The court-room was not more dismal than court-rooms usually are.
I agreed with her. "And I never have any one to take me canoeing any more." "Let's go now," I suggested, "before dinner." So we went. It was a keen pleasure to be on the lake again after the sultry court-rooms and offices, and the wind and exercise quickly brought back my appetite and spirits.
It was just four o'clock, the hour at which the judges left their court-rooms. Popinot the elder chanced to go and see his nephew.
But perhaps the best of us could hardly bear the severe test unconsciously laid down by a small child of my acquaintance. The boy's father, a college-bred man, had early chosen the better part, and employed his fine faculties in rearing laurels in his own beautiful nursery-gardens, instead of in the more arid soil of court-rooms or state-houses.
At first he ascribed his restlessness to the sultry weather, then to his abuse of tea and cigarettes, perhaps it was the sharp odour of the average congregation, that collective odour of humanity encountered in church, theatre, or court-rooms.
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