But the impenetrable justice, calling the same Mr.Saunders he had addressed before, asked him to examine well the countenances of Mr.Lobkins's friends.
As the alguazil eyed the features of the memorable Don Raphael and the illustrious Manuel Morales, when the former of those accomplished personages thought it convenient to assume the travelling dignity of an Italian prince, son of the sovereign of the valleys which lie between Switzerland, the Milanese, and Savoy, while the latter was contented with being servant to Monseigneur le Prince; even so, with far more earnestness than respect; did Mr.Saunders eye the features of those high-born gentlemen, Messrs.

Eustace Fitzherbert and William Howard Russell; but after a long survey he withdrew his eyes, made an unsatisfactory and unrecognizing gesture to the magistrate, and said,-- "Please your worship, they are none of my flock; but Bill Troutling knows more of this sort of genteel chaps than I does." "Bid Bill Troutling appear!" was the laconic order.
At that name a certain modest confusion might have been visible in the faces of Mr.Eustace Fitzherbert and Mr.William Howard Russell, had not the attention of the court been immediately directed to another case.

A poor woman had been committed for seven days to the House of Correction on a charge of disrespectability.

Her husband, the person most interested in the matter, now came forward to disprove the charge; and by help of his neighbours he succeeded.
"It is all very true," said Justice Burnflat; "but as your wife, my good fellow, will be out in five days, it will be scarcely worth while to release her now." [A fact, occurring in the month of January, 1830.

Vide "The Morning Herald."] So judicious a decision could not fail of satisfying the husband; and the audience became from that moment enlightened as to a very remarkable truth,--namely, that five days out of seven bear a peculiarly small proportion to the remaining two; and that people in England have so prodigious a love for punishment that though it is not worth while to release an innocent woman from prison five days sooner than one would otherwise have done, it is exceedingly well worth while to commit her to prison for seven! When the husband, passing his rough hand across his eyes, and muttering some vulgar impertinence or another had withdrawn, Mr.Saunders said,-- "Here be Bill Troutling, your worship!" "Oh, well," quoth the justice; "and now, Mr.Eustace Fitz---- Hallo, how's this! Where are Mr.William Howard Russell and his friend Mr.
Eustace Fitzherbert ?" "Echo answered,--where ?" Those noble gentlemen, having a natural dislike to be confronted with so low a person as Mr.Bill Troutling, had, the instant public interest was directed from them, silently disappeared from a scene where their rank in life seemed so little regarded.