I was then boiling against the man with even a more tropical temperature than I had been boiling for him.
But I said to myself: 'No, you have taken up his case; and because you have changed your mind it must not be suffered to let drop.

All that rich tide of eloquence that you prepared last night with so much enthusiasm is out of place, and yet you must not desert him, you must say something.' So I said something, and I got him off.

It made my reputation.

But an experience of that kind is formative.

A man must not bring his passions to the bar--or to the bench," he added.
The story had slightly rekindled Archie's interest.