Plead guilty! Why, with such a case as you have got, you would disgrace yourself for ever if you did so.

Think of your friends, Mr.Tudor, if you won't think of me or of yourself.' His lawyer's eloquence converted him, and he resolved that he would run his chance.

During this time all manner of little legal preliminaries had been going on; and now the court was ready for business; the jury were in their box, the court-keeper cried silence, and Mr.Gitemthruet was busy among his papers with frantic energy.

But nothing was yet seen of the great Mr.
Chaffanbrass.
'I believe we may go on with the trial for breach of trust,' said the judge.

'I do not know why we are waiting.' Then up and spoke Mr.Younglad, who was Alaric's junior counsel.
Mr.Younglad was a promising common-law barrister, now commencing his career, of whom his friends were beginning to hope that he might, if he kept his shoulders well to the collar, at some distant period make a living out of his profession.