This litigation has arisen through the testator's own act, and the estate must bear the burden." "If your Lordship pleases," said James, and sat down.
"Mr.Short," said the Judge, clearing his throat, "I do not often speak in such a sense, but I do feel called upon to compliment you upon the way in which you have, single-handed, conducted this case--in some ways one of the strangest and most important that has ever come before me--having for your opponents so formidable an array of learned gentlemen.

The performance would have been creditable to anybody of greater experience and longer years; as it is, I believe it to be unprecedented." James turned colour, bowed, and sat down, knowing that he was a made man, and that it would be his own fault if his future career at the Bar was not now one of almost unexampled prosperity..