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The Gilded Age
Part 7.

CHAPTER LVII
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And they will win this time.

They will get a writ of habeas corpus, and a stay of proceedings, and a supersedeas, and a new trial and a nolle prosequi, and there you are! That's the routine, and it's no trick at all to a New York lawyer.

That's the regular routine -- everything's red tape and routine in the law, you see; it's all Greek to you, of course, but to a man who is acquainted with those things it's mere--I'll explain it to you sometime.

Everything's going to glide right along easy and comfortable now.

You'll see, Washington, you'll see how it will be.


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