'Then,' said he, 'we may attribute this virulence to private malice; that it is not to be attributed to any fear that this English bride should lose her fortune, or that her French husband should be deprived of any portion of his spoil, I shall be able to prove to a certainty.

Did I allow myself that audacity of denunciation which my learned friend has not considered incompatible with the dignity of his new silk gown?
Could I permit myself such latitude of invective as he has adopted ?'--a slight laugh was here heard in the court, and an involuntary smile played across the judge's face--'yes,' continued Mr.Chaffanbrass, 'I boldly aver that I have never forgotten myself, and what is due to humanity, as my learned friend did in his address to the jury.

Gentlemen of the jury, you will not confound the natural indignation which counsel must feel when defending innocence from the false attacks, with the uncalled-for, the unprofessional acerbity which has now been used in promoting such an accusation as this.

I may at times be angry, when I see mean falsehood before me in vain assuming the garb of truth--for with such juries as I meet here it generally is in vain--I may at times forget myself in anger; but, if we talk of venom, virulence, and eager hostility, I yield the palm, without a contest, to my learned friend in the new silk gown.' He then went on to dispose of the witnesses whom they had heard on the previous day, and expressed a regret that an _expose_ should have been made so disgraceful to the commercial establishments of this great commercial city.

It only showed what was the effect on such establishments of that undue parsimony which was now one of the crying evils of the times.