21/31 We haven't a pleader of such parts and such lucidity at the whole bar." Mr.Caryll nodded his thanks. "Your praise is very flattering, my lord," said he, with a wry smile, and then proceeded: "It is because I see my case to be so very nearly desperate, that I venture to hope you will not persevere in the course you are proposing to adopt." Lord Rotherby laughed noiselessly. "Can you urge me any reasons why we should not ?" "If you could urge me any reasons why you should," said Mr.Caryll, "no doubt I should be able to show you under what misapprehensions you are laboring." He shot a keen glance at his lordship, whose face had suddenly gone blank. "There is in this something that I do not understand," he resumed. |