Miss Sarah Harty, styling
herself Mrs. Nutter, that my client's rights are clear and irresistible,
in order that you may use any interest you may have with that
ill-advised faymale--and I'm told she respects your advice and opinion
highly--to induce her to submit without further annoyance; and I tell
you, in confidence, she has run herself already into a very sarious
predicament.'

'Well, Sir, I'll be happy to hear you,' answered Toole.

''Tis no more, Sir, than I expected from your well-known candour,'
replied Dirty Davy, with the unctuous politeness with which he treated
such gentlemen as he expected to make use of. 'Now, Sir, I'll open our
case without any reserve or exaggeration to you, Sir, and that, Doctor
Toole, is what I wouldn't do to many beside yourself. The facts is in a
nutshell. We claim our conjugal rights. Why, Sir? Because, Sir, we
married the oppugnant, Charles Nutter, gentleman, of the Mills, and so
forth, on the 7th of April, Anno Domini, 1750, in the Church of St.
Clement Danes, in London, of which marriage this, Sir, is a verbatim
copy of the certificate. Now, Sir, your client--I mane your
friend--Misthress Mary Harty, who at present affects the state and
usurps the rights of marriage against my client--the rightful Mrs.
Nutter, performed and celebrated a certain pretended marriage with the
same Charles Nutter, in Chapelizod Church, on the 4th of June, 1758,
seven years and ten months, wanting three days, subsequent to the
marriage of my client. Well, Sir, I see exactly, Sir, what you'd ask:
"Is the certificate genuine?"'

Toole grunted an assent.

'Well, Sir, upon that point I have to show you this,' and he handed him
a copy of Mr. Luke Gamble's notice served only two days before, to the
effect that, having satisfied himself by enquiring on the spot of the
authenticity of the certificate of the marriage of Charles Nutter of the
Mills, and so forth, to Mary Duncan, his client did not mean to dispute
it. 'And, Sir, further, as we were preparing evidence in support of my
client's and her maid's affidavit, to prove her identity with the Mary
Duncan in question, having served your client--I mane, Sir, asking your
pardon again--your friend, with a notice that such corroboratory
evidence being unnecessary, we would move the court, in case it were
pressed for, to give us the costs of procuring it, Mr. Luke Gamble
fortwith struck, on behalf of his client, and admitted the sufficiency
of the evidence.