He was still very weak, and obviously suffering from intense excitement.

Still it was a pleasure to see his face and clasp his hand.
Sir Hardinge Giffard gloomed on us with his wintry face, but he left the conduct of the case almost entirely to Mr.Maloney.The evidence against us was overpowering, and we did not seriously contest it.

Mr.Ramsey read a brief speech after lunch, and precisely at two o'clock I rose to make my defence, which lasted two hours and forty minutes.
The table before me was crowded with books and papers, and I held a sheet of references that looked like a brief.

My first step was to pay Judge North an instalment of the debt I owed him.
"My lord, and gentlemen of the jury,--I am very happy, not to stand in this position, but to learn what I had not learned before--how a criminal trial should be conducted, notwithstanding that two months ago I was tried in another court, and before another judge.

Fortunately, the learned counsel, who are conducting this prosecution have not now a judge who will allow them to walk out of court while he argues their brief for them in their absence." Lord Coleridge interrupted me.