The witnesses, Mr.
Balfour; heard ye ever the match of that?
I assure ye, no old, crooked Stewart of the gang ever outfaced the law more impudently.

It's clean in the two eyes of the Act of Parliament of 1700, anent wrongous imprisonment.

No sooner did I get the news than I petitioned the Lord Justice Clerk.

I have his word to-day.

There's law for ye! here's justice!" He put a paper in my hand, that same mealy-mouthed, false-faced paper that was printed since in the pamphlet "by a bystander," for behoof (as the title says) of James's "poor widow and five children." "See," said Stewart, "he couldn't dare to refuse me access to my client, so he _recommends the commanding officer to let me in_.