3/6 If I am permitted, sir, I shall institute proper inquiries as to your origin, which has occasioned so much thought. The press of business I have labored under during the last month has not permitted me. I'm sick of it--and go to it like a horse to the traces." "Don't you like law, sir ?" "No--I hate it." "Why, sir ?" "'Why!'" cried Mr.Rushton, "there you are with your annoying questions! I hate it because it lowers still more my opinion of this miserable humanity. |