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"Anstey is a wag, you understand," explained Thorndyke, "but he has lucid intervals. He'll have one presently if we are patient." "Patient!" snorted our eccentric visitor, "it is I who need to be patient when I am dragged into police courts and other sinks of iniquity to plead for common thieves and robbers like a Kennington Lane advocate." "You've been talking to Lawley, I see," said Thorndyke.
Nevertheless, he gave his evidence in a perfectly connected manner, recounting the events connected with the discovery of the crime in much the same words as I had heard Mr. Lawley use, though, indeed, he was a good deal more emphatic than that gentleman had been in regard to the excellent character borne by the prisoner. After him came Mr.
Perceiving that the matter in hand was of a confidential nature, I thought it best to take my departure, which I accordingly did, as soon as I had ascertained that it wanted yet half-an-hour to the time at which Mrs. Hornby and Juliet were due at the lawyer's office. Mr. Lawley received me with stiffness that bordered on hostility.
"Your religion!" cried Lawley, with a laugh; "why, you young rascal! I don't believe you have any religion at all." "But my family have," Napoleon protested. I should be disinherited if I showed any signs of becoming a heretic like you English; and if I joined the British navy, would I not be compelled to become a heretic, like you, Lawley?"
"Yes, and he tells me that we haven't a leg to stand upon." "No, we've got to stand on our heads, as men of intellect should. But Lawley knows nothing about the case." "He thinks he knows it all," said Anstey. "Most fools do," retorted Thorndyke. "They arrive at their knowledge by intuition a deuced easy road and cheap travelling too. We reserve our defence I suppose you agree to that?"
Francis Lawley, who knew him well, "was in the cathedrals of England, notably in York Minster and Westminster Abbey. "General Jackson," writes Lord Wolseley, "had certainly very little to say about military operations, although he was intensely proud of his soldiers, and enthusiastic in his devotion to General Lee; and it was impossible to make him talk of his own achievements.
Lawley burst into such a loud laugh over the boy's religious scruples, of which he had never before seen evidence, that he aroused one of the teachers with his noise, and had to scud away, for fear of being caught, and punished for neglect of duty. But he kept Napoleon's letter of application.
"He was a pretty boy, too, and, when his first sorrow came, was still too young to have learned any of the proud ways of his father and mother. "No one is so rich as to be above the reach of trouble, therefore pride and self-sufficiency are never suitable to the state of man. "Trouble was long in coming to Mr. and Mrs. Lawley, but when it came it was only the more terrible.
"Wherever these unhappy parents saw a wild country, full of woods, and where the ground was rough and broken, they thought, if possible, more than ever of their lost child; and at those times Mrs. Lawley always began to weep indeed, she had done little else since she had missed her boy.
Lawley has been giving us his views of poor Reuben's case, and his attitude fills me with dismay." "Hang Mr. Lawley!" I muttered, and then apologised hastily. "What made you go to him, Miss Gibson?" "I didn't go to him; he came to us. He dined with us last night he and Walter and his manner was gloomy in the extreme.
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