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"You educated your son to your own profession, I believe, Mr. Nethercliffe?" "I did, sir; I hope there was no harm in that, Mr. Hawkins." "Not in the least; it is a lucrative profession. Was he a diligent student?" "He was." "And became as good an expert as his father, I hope?" "Even better, I should say, if possible." "I think you profess to be infallible, do you not?" "That is true, Mr.
Some will pin their faith even to the crossing of a T, "the perpendicularity, my lord," of a down-stroke, or the "obliquity" of an upstroke. Mr. Nethercliffe, one of the greatest in his profession, and a thorough believer in all he said, had been often cross-examined by me, and we understood each other very well.
On one occasion, in the Queen's Bench, a libel was charged against a defendant which he positively denied ever to have written. I appeared for the defendant, and Mr. Nethercliffe was called as a witness for the plaintiff. When I rose to cross-examine I handed to the expert six slips of paper, each of which was written in a different kind of handwriting.
Nethercliffe took out his large pair of spectacles magnifiers which he always carried, and began to polish them with a great deal of care, saying, "I see, Mr. Hawkins, what you are going to try to do you want to put me in a hole." "I do, Mr. Nethercliffe; and if you are ready for the hole, tell me were those six pieces of paper written by one hand at about the same time?"
He examined them carefully, and after a considerable time answered: "No; they were written at different times and by different hands!" "By different persons, do you say?" "Yes, certainly!" "Now, Mr. Nethercliffe, you are in the hole! I wrote them myself this morning at this desk." He was a good deal disconcerted, not to say very angry, and I then began to ask him about his son.
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