In a word, if I cannot be a counsel, I am determined to be a CLIENT, a sort of person without whom a lawsuit would be as dull as a supposed case.

Yes, I am determined to give you your first fee.

One can easily, I am assured, get into a lawsuit--it is only the getting out which is sometimes found troublesome;--and, with your kind father for an agent, and you for my counsel learned in the law, and the worshipful Master Samuel Griffiths to back me, a few sessions shall not tire my patience.

In short, I will make my way into court, even if it should cost me the committing a DELICT, or at least a QUASI DELICT .-- You see all is not lost of what Erskine wrote, and Wallace taught.
Thus far I have fooled it off well enough; and yet, Alan, all is not at ease within me.

I am affected with a sense of loneliness, the more depressing, that it seems to me to be a solitude peculiarly my own.