It is very rare that a barrister puts his foot in an attorney's office; the two classes meet in the law-courts.

In society, there is no barrier between them, and some barristers, those in la Peyrade's situation particularly, demean themselves by calling occasionally on attorneys, though even these cases are rare, and are usually excused by some special urgency.
"I have come on important business," replied la Peyrade; "it concerns, especially, a question of delicacy which you and I ought to solve together.

Thuillier is below, in a carriage, and I have come up to see you, not as a barrister, but as his friend.

You are in a position to do him an immense service; and I have told him that you have too noble a soul (as a worthy successor of our great Derville must have) not to put your utmost capacity at his orders.

Here's the affair." After explaining, wholly to his own advantage, the swindling trick which must, he said, be met with caution and ability, the barrister developed his plan of campaign.
"You ought, my dear maitre, to go this very evening to Desroches, explain the whole plot and persuade him to send to-morrow for his client, this Sauvaignou.