Would you have a murderer hanged without some one to stand up for him ?" "Yes, I would," said Dolly, thoughtlessly.
"And he mightn't have been a murderer after all; or not legally so, which as far as the law goes is the same thing." But this special question had been often discussed between them, and Mr.
Grey and Dolly did not intend to be carried away by it on the present occasion.

"I know all about that," she said; "but this isn't a case of life and death.

The old man is only anxious to save his property, and throws upon you all the burden of doing it.

He never agrees with you as to anything you say." "As to legal points he does." "But he keeps you always in hot water, and puts forward so much villany that I would have nothing farther to do with him.

He has been so crafty that you hardly know now which is, in truth, the heir." "Oh yes, I do," said the lawyer.