28/31 We shall do all the actual work. Why do you ask ?" "I was thinking of the solicitor's costs, and I was going to mention that I have a little money of my own--" "Then keep it, my dear fellow. You'll want it when you go into practice. "Or old Brodribb, if we put it to him _amicus curiae_." "It is excessively kind of both of you to take this benevolent interest in the case of my friends," I said; "and it is to be hoped that they won't be foolishly proud and stiff-necked about it. It's rather the way with poor gentlefolk." "I'll tell you what!" exclaimed Jervis. |