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A young man, barely twenty-one years of age, without any special advantages of birth or education, opens a law-office in Kingston, at that time a place of less than five thousand inhabitants. Two lads come to him to study law. The three work together for a few years. They afterwards go into politics. One drifts away from the other two, who remain closely allied.
Times were so prosperous that the people lost interest in the crime of '73, and General Ward had to stay in his law-office, but he joined the teetotalers and helped to organize the Good Templars and the state temperance society. Colonel Culpepper in his prosperity took to fancy vests, cut extremely low, and the Culpepper women became the nucleus of organized polite society in the Ridge.
From his humble law-office window he had seen Phyllis pass along the street in the old Sommerton carriage, and had fallen in love as promptly as possible with her plump, lissome form and pretty face.
Occasionally, he would lecture for scientific clubs or societies. While still in the Law School he had discounted the future and married a charming young woman, who believed in him to an extent that would have made the average man pause. Marriages do not always keep pace exactly with the price of corn. Receipts in the Fiske law-office were not active.
"Well," she began, "if I were you, I wouldn't say too much about that is, I but never mind." "What is it?" asked her husband. "Nothing whatever," replied Alice, positively. "It was only some nonsense of mine;" and Theron, placidly accepting the feminine whim, went off down the street again. The Rev. Mr. Ware found Levi Gorringe's law-office readily enough, but its owner was not in.
There were two public-houses in the place: one dignified with the name of the Mountain House, somewhat frequented by city people in the summer months, large-fronted, three-storied, balconied, boasting a distinct ladies'-drawing-room, and spreading a table d'hote of some pretensions; the other, "Pollard's Tahvern," in the common speech, a two-story building, with a bar-room, once famous, where there was a great smell of hay and boots and pipes and all other bucolic-flavored elements, where games of checkers were played on the back of the bellows with red and white kernels of corn, or with beans and coffee, where a man slept in a box-settle at night, to wake up early passengers, where teamsters came in, with wooden-handled whips and coarse frocks, reinforcing the bucolic flavor of the atmosphere, and middle-aged male gossips, sometimes including the squire of the neighboring law-office, gathered to exchange a question or two about the news, and then fall into that solemn state of suspended animation which the temperance bar-rooms of modern days produce in human beings, as the Grotta del Cane does in dogs in the well-known experiments related by travellers.
G.W. Harris, whose first meeting with Lincoln in a log school-house has been previously described in these pages, subsequently became a clerk in Lincoln's law-office at Springfield, and furnishes some excellent reminiscences of that interesting period.
Her father had taken the pains to inform himself that Lane was apparently at work in his law-office as usual. These two incipient subjects of the power she hoped to wield seemed to have dropped her utterly, and she was discouraged.
"I don't believe you, Don." "No? Yet you 've got as much evidence against me as against Arsdale." "But, God A'mighty, Donaldson, why should you do such a thing?" "Why should the boy?" Saul seized his arm. "You don't tell me that you've fallen into that habit?" "Sit in a law-office and do nothing for three years, then then, perhaps, you 'll understand." Saul threw away his cigar.
And so he was dragged to the City Hall and there locked up. The crowd lingered, then thinned out. The shouts grew less, and soon the police were able to rout the loiterers. The young lawyer went back to his law-office, but not to study. The law looked different to him now the whole legal aspect of things had changed in an hour. It was a pivotal point.
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