He had almost begun to doubt the fact of his own guilt, so wondrously had his conduct been glossed over by Mr.Chaffanbrass, so strikingly had any good attempt on his part been brought to the light, so black had Scott been made to appear.

Ideas floated across his brain that he might go forth, not only free of the law, but whitewashed also in men's opinions, that he might again sit on his throne at the Civil Service Board, again cry to himself 'Excelsior,' and indulge the old dreams of his ambition.
But, alas! the deliberate and well-poised wisdom of the judge seemed to shower down cold truth upon the jury from his very eyes.

His words were low in their tone, though very clear, impassive, delivered without gesticulation or artifice, such as that so powerfully used by Mr.Chaffanbrass; but Alaric himself felt that it was impossible to doubt the truth of such a man; impossible to suppose that any juryman should do so.

Ah me! why had he brought himself thus to quail beneath the gaze of an old man seated on a bench?
with what object had he forced himself to bend his once proud neck?
He had been before in courts such as this, and had mocked within his own spirit the paraphernalia of the horsehair wigs, the judges' faded finery, and the red cloth; he had laughed at the musty, stale solemnity by which miscreants were awed, and policemen enchanted; now, these things told on himself heavily enough; he felt now their weight and import.
And then the jury retired from the court to consider their verdict, and Mr.Gitemthruet predicted that they would be hungry enough before they sat down to their next meal.

'His lordship was dead against us,' said Mr.Gitemthruet; 'but that was a matter of course; we must look to the jury, and the city juries are very fond of Mr.Chaffanbrass; I am not quite sure, however, that Mr.
Chaffanbrass was right: I would not have admitted so much myself; but then no one knows a city jury so well as Mr.Chaffanbrass.' Other causes came on, and still the jury did not return to court.
Mr.Chaffanbrass seemed to have forgotten the very existence of Alaric Tudor, and was deeply engaged in vindicating a city butcher from an imputation of having vended a dead ass by way of veal.