Equity sends questions to law, law sends questions back to equity; law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can so much as say it can't do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing and that counsel appearing for B; and so on through the whole alphabet, like the history of the apple pie.

And thus, through years and years, and lives and lives, everything goes on, constantly beginning over and over again, and nothing ever ends.

And we can't get out of the suit on any terms, for we are made parties to it, and MUST BE parties to it, whether we like it or not.

But it won't do to think of it! When my great uncle, poor Tom Jarndyce, began to think of it, it was the beginning of the end!" "The Mr.Jarndyce, sir, whose story I have heard ?" He nodded gravely.

"I was his heir, and this was his house, Esther.
When I came here, it was bleak indeed.