Briefs and Papers: Sketches of the Bar and the PressHenry S. King & Company, 1872 - 272 páginas |
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... late Mr. Redtape's chambers . It was speedily opened , and we were forthwith confronted by Mrs. Flanagan . She was then a very portly widow of about fifty years of age . She was dressed in a seedy suit of black , and had a swollen red ...
... late Mr. Redtape's chambers . It was speedily opened , and we were forthwith confronted by Mrs. Flanagan . She was then a very portly widow of about fifty years of age . She was dressed in a seedy suit of black , and had a swollen red ...
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... late Mr. Redtape had died in these rooms . ' O yes , sir , ' replied that excellent woman cheerfully ; ' he died here on this day fort- night . He made a sweet end , sir ; nobody bein ' in the room with him but the priest and me . God ...
... late Mr. Redtape had died in these rooms . ' O yes , sir , ' replied that excellent woman cheerfully ; ' he died here on this day fort- night . He made a sweet end , sir ; nobody bein ' in the room with him but the priest and me . God ...
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... late Solicitor- general . As I lounge out of my sitting - room win- dows I behold attorneys ' clerks bearing thither huge briefs . Thither , too , occasionally come , under the guidance of the solicitors engaged in the case , men who ...
... late Solicitor- general . As I lounge out of my sitting - room win- dows I behold attorneys ' clerks bearing thither huge briefs . Thither , too , occasionally come , under the guidance of the solicitors engaged in the case , men who ...
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... repast . I must lay down my pen , or else I shall be too late for that event , which is to me not the least important one in each day's life in the Temple . 23 WESTMINSTER HALL . THE stranger who may have chanced 22 Briefs and Papers .
... repast . I must lay down my pen , or else I shall be too late for that event , which is to me not the least important one in each day's life in the Temple . 23 WESTMINSTER HALL . THE stranger who may have chanced 22 Briefs and Papers .
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... late at the dingy chambers of the special pleader with whom he read ; he marked and annotated cases in the law reports till far on into the night , and till the midnight oil in his student's lamp burned low ; yet , notwithstanding all ...
... late at the dingy chambers of the special pleader with whom he read ; he marked and annotated cases in the law reports till far on into the night , and till the midnight oil in his student's lamp burned low ; yet , notwithstanding all ...
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