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As a bachelor he had been in the habit of stopping on his way up-town from the law-office at the club, or to take tea at the houses of the different girls he liked. Of course he could not do that now as a married man. He would instead have to limit his calls to married women, as all the other married men of his acquaintance did.
Palma's office, and be sure you are back here at half-past three. Don't keep me waiting." Never before had Regina gone to the law-office, and to-day she very reluctantly followed the unpalatable advice; but the urgency of Mrs. Palma's manner constrained obedience. When the carriage stopped, she went in, feeling uncomfortable and embarrassed, and secretly hoping that her guardian was absent.
In 1833, by an arrangement made between Mackenzie and L. P. Macpherson a relative of the Macdonalds young Macdonald was sent to Picton, to take charge of Macpherson's law-office during his absence from Canada. On being called to the bar in 1836, Macdonald opened an office in Kingston and began the practice of law on his own account.
That the Republican simplicity of the new Judge followed him from his "very humble and obscure law-office" to the Bench, will now appear: "The very first court I held was in Washington County, and it was to me a strange and novel business.
Ceasing to be private secretary he knew not what else to do but return with his father and mother to Boston in the middle of March, and, with childlike docility, sit down at a desk in the law-office of Horace Gray in Court Street, to begin again: "My Lords and Gentlemen"; dozing after a two o'clock dinner, or waking to discuss politics with the future Justice.
It's there you'll find young men with muscle, if anywhere. Put your hand here, sir, and you'll know whether Miss Banning made a bad bargain in hiring me for the day." "Why!" exclaimed the astonished farmer, "you have the muscle of a blacksmith." "Yes, sir; I could learn that trade in about a month." "You don't grow muscle like that in a law-office?" "No, indeed; nothing but bills grow there.
In no sense could he be called a party man. Another member of the Opposition was the young man we have already met as a student in Macdonald's law-office, afterwards Sir Oliver Mowat, prime minister of Ontario. Mowat was of a type very different to Sandfield Macdonald. He had been a consistent Reformer from his youth up.
Four years prior to this appointment, he had been admitted to the bar, after "undergoing with much diffidence" his examination. This accomplished, he adds: "In the Winter of 1814, I established a very humble and obscure law-office in the French village of Cahokia, the county seat of St. Clair County."
He had been fortunate, to be sure, in securing a clerk's desk in the great law-office of Hunt, Sharp & Tweedle, and he had the kindly encouragement of the firm that, with close application to business, he would make his way. But even in this he had his misgivings, for a great part of his acquirements, and those he most valued, did not seem to be of any use in his office-work.
Many a conversation about the wheel took place in front of that window, and old Judge Parker, who had his law-office next door, soon began to look for the boys' visit as one of the most interesting happenings of the day. Everybody in Bardstown knew old Judge Parker.
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