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Updated: May 26, 2025
You are now almost as poor as Lazarus, and if you don't make people pay you more for your services, you will die as poor as Job's turkey." The event justified the Judge's remarks. It was not unusual for Lincoln's name, as attorney, to be found on one side or the other of every case on the docket.
Not another word was said until we stood before the clerk at the Central Office. The matter-of-fact way in which he picked up a pen and poised it over the police docket, the callous indifference with which he inquired the prisoner's name and the nature of the charge, made Burke flinch for the first time. "Wait, Johnson!" I said suddenly to the clerk, as if on second thought.
Then, three weeks later, if the docket permitted, he went on to Raleigh to hold court there for a few days. The summers he usually spent on the estate which he inherited from his father at Fauquier, or else he went higher up into the mountains to escape malaria.
But, though two executions were placed in the hands of the former, upon judgments on the docket of the latter, months passed away, without anything being realized from the impervious defendant, Smedley.
Carbuncle had seats for three, for one of which Lady Eustace paid her share in advance, in the midst of the very best pews in the most conspicuous part of the house, and hardly a word had been said to her about the money. And now there came to them from Mr. Emilius the prettiest little gold salver that ever was seen. "I send Messrs. Clerico's docket," wrote Mr.
"In order to keep the docket straight," said the justice, "I should want to note yo' bid. How long shall I say?" "Say what you like," said the colonel, drawing out his pocketbook. "You don't care to bid, Mr. Turner?" asked the justice. "Not by a damn sight," replied Turner, with native elegance. "I buy niggers to work, not to bury."
After reading aloud the penalty imposed for the commission of the offence mentioned, and with pen in hand as if about to make the appropriate entry upon the docket, His Honor again turned to the prisoner and inquired: "Of what church are you a minister?" The steady reply, as of one prepared for the worst, was, "I am a Presbyterian, Your Honor." "Presbyterian!
'Your Highness, protested the treasurer, 'we have immediate need of every crown. 'I think, sir, you evade me, flashed the Prince; and then turning to the side-table, 'Mr. Secretary, he added, 'bring me, if you please, the treasury docket. Herr Grafinski became deadly pale; the Chancellor, expecting his own turn, was probably engaged in prayer; Gondremark was watching like a ponderous cat.
His Honor had announced that he would prefer, in default of objection, passing all criminal cases to the foot of the docket, first disposing of several matters of probate and minor importance. To this Marcus had agreed.
The Countess turned once more to the crowd. "I move that you apologize to Mr. Phillips. Are you game?" Her question met with a yell of approval. "Now, then, there's a new case on the docket, and the charge is highway robbery. Are you ready to vote a verdict?" Her face was set, her eyes still flashed. "Guilty!" came with a roar. "Very well. Hang the ruffians if you feel like it!"
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