Mr.Serjeant Cupid, Q.C., and Mr.Capital Opportunity, for the Defendant." "Oh!" snapped Mr.Thompson, senior, peering venom at the unfortunate Ripton over his spectacles, "your notes are on that issue, sir! Thus you employ your time, sir!" With another side-shot at the confidential clerk, who retired immediately behind a strong entrenchment of shrugs, Mr.Thompson was pushed by the devil of his rancour to continue reading: "This Case is too well known to require more than a partial summary of particulars"...
"Ahem! we will skip the particulars, however partial," said Mr.
Thompson.

"Ah!--what do you mean here, sir,--but enough! I think we may be excused your Legal Considerations on such a Case.

This is how you employ your law-studies, sir! You put them to this purpose?
Mr.Beazley! you will henceforward sit alone.

I must have this young man under my own eye.

Sir Austin! permit me to apologize to you for subjecting you to a scene so disagreeable.