"I must say it in justice to himself.

I know--I believe faithfully, slavishly, after our talk--he will never ask me anything unjust.

I am proud to feel it, that we have that much in common, I am proud to say it to you." The Judge, with shining eyes, raised his tankard.

"And I think perhaps that we might permit ourselves a toast," said he.

"I should like to propose the health of a man very different from me and very much my superior--a man from whom I have often differed, who has often (in the trivial expression) rubbed me the wrong way, but whom I have never ceased to respect and, I may add, to be not a little afraid of.