[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookDavid Copperfield CHAPTER 26 10/40
You tried it in the Consistory.
You made a quiet little round game of it, among a family group, and you played it out at leisure.
Suppose you were not satisfied with the Consistory, what did you do then? Why, you went into the Arches.
What was the Arches? The same court, in the same room, with the same bar, and the same practitioners, but another judge, for there the Consistory judge could plead any court-day as an advocate.
Well, you played your round game out again.
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