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Stradling; said Trottman, with great gravity. 'Placemen, and pensioners are vile vermin! And so will remain, till your party comes into office. 'If ever I could be brought to accept of place, or pension, may I ! 'I believe you: for I am well persuaded your virtue will never be put to the trial.
While I was in the midst of all these admirings, my attention was roused by a dialogue that passed between two of my senior fellow-pupils, whose names were Rudge and Trottman, which the former thus began. 'That was a d rascally cause we were concerned in yesterday. 'Rascally enough. But we got it. 'I can't say but I was sorry for the poor farmer. 'Sorry! Ha, ha, ha!
Bless me, thought I, what innumerable ways there are of reducing a man to beggary and destruction according to law! Trottman thus provokingly continued. 'My dear Mr. Stradling, your brain is bewildered. You go backward and forward, from one supposition to another, and from process to process, till you really don't know what you say.
'Life is a journey, added Trottman; 'and, if I can travel on terra firma, with a clear sky, and a smiling landscape, let those that please put to sea in a butcher's tray, and sail in quest of foul weather. 'Yes, sir, but the search of ease is the loss of happiness; and to fly from danger is the likeliest way to meet it: that is, when you either seek or fly without a guide.
Trottman and Stradling were accustomed to each other's manner; and, notwithstanding the language they used, nothing more was meant than a kind of jocular sparring: which would now and then forget itself for a moment, and become waspish; but would recollect and recover its temper the next sentence.
Stradling soon after came; and Trottman very artfully led him into a dispute on a supposed case, which Trottman pretended to defend, and aggravated him, by contradiction, till Stradling roundly affirmed his opponent knew nothing of conducting a suit at law.
I replied to Trottman 'It is true that, when two men dispute, it generally happens they are both in the wrong. But one is always more in the wrong than the other; and it should be the business of lawyers to examine, and of the law to decide upon, their different degrees of error. 'What, sir! exclaimed Stradling.
My ardour however had felt some trifling abatement, by the very different picture and panegyric of the law as given by Trottman, opposed to that I had been contemplating. But I had this very powerful consolation: that, as Trottman knew very little of what I supposed to be the true principles of politics, it was highly probable he was no better acquainted with those of law.
Stradling, said Trottman, 'you are again out of your depth. When two men dispute, it almost always happens that they are both in the wrong. And this is the glorious resource of law; and the refuge of its counsellors, and its judges.
'The law I find, sir, said I, 'has no compassion. 'Compassion, indeed! No, sir. Compassion is a fool; and the law is wise. 'In itself I hope it is: but I own I doubt the wisdom of its practice. 'But this practice, you must know, said Trottman, with a wink to Stradling, 'Mr. Trevor means to reform.
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