When you have found her out, engage her to come to my chambers tomorrow at eight o'clock precisely.' 'What shall I say to make her forthcoming ?' asked the aid-de-camp.
'Anything you choose,' replied the lawyer.

'Is it my business to make lies for you, do you think?
But let her be in praesentia by eight o'clock, as I have said before.' The clerk grinned, made his reverence, and exit.
'That's a useful fellow,' said the Counsellor; 'I don't believe his match ever carried a process.

He'll write to my dictating three nights in the week without sleep, or, what's the same thing, he writes as well and correctly when he's asleep as when he's awake.

Then he's such a steady fellow; some of them are always changing their ale-houses, so that they have twenty cadies sweating after them, like the bare-headed captains traversing the taverns of Eastcheap in search of Sir John Falstaff.

But this is a complete fixture; he has his winter seat by the fire and his summer seat by the window in Luckie Wood's, betwixt which seats are his only migrations; there he's to be found at all times when he is off duty.
It is my opinion he never puts off his clothes or goes to sleep; sheer ale supports him under everything.