Mr.
Besley, Q.C., and Mr.Monckton watched the case, it was said, for the brothers, Lord Douglas of Hawick and Lord Alfred Douglas.
While waiting for the judge, the buzz of talk in the court grew loud; everybody agreed that the presence of Sir Edward Clarke gave Oscar an advantage.

Mr.Carson was not so well known then as he has since become; he was regarded as a sharp-witted Irishman who had still his spurs to win.

Some knew he had been at school with Oscar, and at Trinity College was as high in the second class as Oscar was in the first.

It was said he envied Oscar his reputation for brilliance.
Suddenly the loud voice of the clerk called for silence.
As the judge appeared everyone stood up and in complete stillness Sir Edward Clarke opened for the prosecution.

The bleak face, long upper lip and severe side whiskers made the little man look exactly like a nonconformist parson of the old days, but his tone and manner were modern--quiet and conversational.