If Williams was to be disbarred, why they would have to take the same course with a Brinsley who also defended women law-breakers, fighting for their constitutional rights.

And of course such a procedure as _that_ was unthinkable.

Yet where a Brinsley sailed unhampered, undangered over these troubled waters, poor David often came near to crashing on the rocks.

"To hear the fellow talk," said one angry K.C.in the Library at the Inner Temple, "you'd think he was a woman himself!" "Egad" said his brother K.C .-- yes, he really _did_ say "Egad," the oath still lingers in the Inns of Court--"Egad, he looks like one.

No hair on his face and I'll lay he doesn't shave." There were of course other briefs he held, for payment or for love of justice; young women who had killed their babies (as to these he was far from sentimental; he only defended where the woman had any claim to sympathy or mitigation of the unreal death sentence); breach of promise actions where the woman had been grossly wronged; affiliation cases in high life--or the nearest to high life that makes a claim on the man for his fatherhood.