And, do you know, I wonder if he might not have as good an answer against you and me?
We say we sometimes find him _coarse_, but I suspect he might retort that he finds us always dull.

Perhaps a relevant exception." He beamed on Archie, but no smile could be elicited.
"And now," proceeded the Judge, "for 'Archibald on Capital Punishment.' This is a very plausible academic opinion; of course I do not and I cannot hold it; but that's not to say that many able and excellent persons have not done so in the past.

Possibly, in the past also, I may have a little dipped myself in the same heresy.

My third client, or possibly my fourth, was the means of a return in my opinions.

I never saw the man I more believed in; I would have put my hand in the fire, I would have gone to the cross for him; and when it came to trial he was gradually pictured before me, by undeniable probation, in the light of so gross, so cold-blooded, and so black-hearted a villain, that I had a mind to have cast my brief upon the table.