Here's his lordship; uncommon well he looks, don't he?
You'd hardly believe him to be seventy-seven, but he's not a day less, if he isn't any more; and he has as much work in him yet as you or I, pretty nearly.

If you want to insure a man's life, Mr.Tudor, put him on the bench; then he'll never die.

We lawyers are not like bishops, who are always for giving up, and going out on a pension.' But Alaric was not at the moment inclined to meditate much on the long years of judges.

He was thinking, or perhaps trying to think, whether it would not be better for him to save this crowd that was now gathered together all further trouble, and plead guilty at once.

He knew he was guilty, he could not understand that it was possible that any juryman should have a doubt about it; he had taken the money that did not belong to him; that would be made quite clear; he had taken it, and had not repaid it; there was the absolute _corpus delicti_ in court, in the shape of a deficiency of some thousands of pounds.