But, impatient as he may be, especially as he is convinced that one or other of the parties is keeping back a part of the truth, he is determined that the subject shall be searched to the bottom.

The petty village shopkeeper and the humble cottager obtain as full or fuller attention than the well-to-do Plaintiffs and Defendants who can bring down barristers from London.
'What have you there ?' the Registrar's clerk demands of the Plaintiff presently.

She has been searching in her pocket for a snuff-box wherewith to refresh herself, and, unable to immediately discover it, has emptied the contents of the pocket on the ledge of the witness-box.

Among the rest is another little account-book.
'Let me see that,' demands the Judge, rather sharply, and no wonder.

'Why did you not produce it before ?' 'Aw, he be last year's un; some of it be two years ago,' is the reply.
Another long pause.