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It was as easy to make justices of Jeffreys and Scroggs, as of any other material; and to have prohibited all the king's officers, except his justices, from presiding in criminal trials, would therefore have been mere fool's play.
Call such a one but an accessory to the Plot let him be mouthed in the evidence of Oates or Dugdale and the blindest shall foresee the issue of their trial." "Prophet of Evil!" said Julian, "my father has a shield invulnerable to protect him. He is innocent." "Let him plead his innocence at the bar of Heaven," said the voice; "it will serve him little where Scroggs presides."
Thence with them to Westminster Hall, they setting me down at White Hall, where I missed of finding Sir G. Carteret, up to the Lords' House, and there come mighty seasonably to hear the Solicitor about my Lord Buckingham's pretence to the title of Lord Rosse. Mr. Atturny Montagu is also a good man, and so is old Sir P. Ball; but the Solicitor and Scroggs after him are excellent men.
Bailey pointed out caustically that to imprison a sub-Freshman would be to ruin his reputation, break his spirit and disgrace the school that one world's record was worth fifty points, and that, if allowed to, I would pole-vault so high the next day that I would have to come down in a parachute. The result was the council broke up in one big row and Martha Scroggs spent the afternoon unengaged.
"Oh, he a'n't lame! it's nothing but the cramps from stowing. You know, of course, they are more or less stiff. He's as sound as a nut." "Don't much like to buy relations, on account of their hatching up mischief together," said Mr. Scroggs. "Oh, that's all humbug! You must keep 'em from coming together, anyway. It's about as broad as 'tis long.
"And, meanwhile, put this to bed," indicating Scroggs, who was now snoring like a bag-pipe with one arm lovingly wound around a leg of the library table. The care-taker hoisted the attorney on his broad shoulders, his burden still piping as they crossed the hall and mounted the stairway.
"Well, sir, she's a woman and that's enough," replied the lawyer. "And my opinion is, it's better to have nothing to do with 'em." This sententious remark seemed to arouse Scroggs to momentary vivacity. "Now there was my Lord Hamerton, whose picture is upstairs," he went on quickly, like a man who is bent on grasping certain ideas before they escape him.
Lord Hate-good performs the office of counsel for the prisoners as well as Scroggs himself could have performed it. "JUDGE. Thou runagate, heretic, and traitor, hast thou heard what these honest gentlemen have witnessed against thee? "FAITHFUL. May I speak a few words in my own defence?
Here I was, a Freshman so green that the cows looked longingly at me, and up against the job of saving the college, winning out for the frat and becoming engaged to a girl I didn't know before a whole roomful of rivals. I wasn't up to the job. If only I had gone to the works! They seemed a haven of sweet peace just then. Martha Scroggs came into the room. She looked at the quartet.
All agreed that that would be a good idea and the castaway was escorted to the cabin table on which Hiram Scroggs the Vermonter soon spread a fine meal. "Wall, first and foremost," began Ben, the meal being dispatched, "I 'spose you want to know how I come to be out here skydoodling around in a dirigible?" "That's it," cried Billy.
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