"
"Yours has been a very useful life, Mr. Chaffanbrass."
"But I often feel," continued the barrister, paying no attention to
the attorney's last remark, "that my work touches the heart more
nearly than does that of gentlemen who have to deal with matters of
property and of high social claims. People think I am savage,--savage
to witnesses."
"You can frighten a witness, Mr. Chaffanbrass."
"It's just the trick of the trade that you learn, as a girl learns
the notes of her piano. There's nothing in it. You forget it all the
next hour. But when a man has been hung whom you have striven to
save, you do remember that. Good-morning, Mr. Wickerby. I'll be there
a little before ten. Perhaps you may have to speak to me."
CHAPTER LXI
The Beginning of the Trial
The task of seeing an important trial at the Old Bailey is by no
means a pleasant business, unless you be what the denizens of the
Court would call "one of the swells,"--so as to enjoy the privilege
of being a benchfellow with the judge on the seat of judgment.
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