other thing,
Master Bumpkin, although p'r'aps I ought to keep my mouth closed; but
'ere you'll see a Chancery Judge as knows everything about land and
titles to property, and all that, and never had any training in Criminal
Courts, and may be never been inside of one before, you'll see 'im down
'ere tryin' burglaries and robberies, and down at the Assizes you'll see
'im tryin' men and women for stealing mutton pies and a couple of ounces
of bacon; that's the way the Round Square's worked, Master Bumpkin; and
very well it acts. There's a moral atmosphere, too, about the Courts
which is very curious. It seems to make every crime look bigger than it
really is. But as I say, where's the human natur of a Chancery
barrister? How can you get it in Chancery? They only sees human natur
in a haffidavit, and although I don't say you can't put a lot of it into
a haffidavit, such as perjury and such like, yet it's so done up by the
skill of the profession that you can hardly see it. Learning from
haffidavits isn't like learning from the witness-box, mark my words, Mr.
Bumpkin; and so you'll find when you come to hear a case or two."

Having thus eloquently delivered himself, Mr. O'Rapley paused to see its
effect: but there was no answer. There was no doubt the Don could talk
a-bit, and took especial pride in expressing his views on law reform,
which, to his idea, would best be effected by returning to the "old
style."

And I saw that they pushed their way through a crowd of people of all
sorts and degrees of unwashedness and crime, and proceeded up a winding
stair, through other crowds of the most evil-looking indictable persons
you could meet with out of the Bottomless Pit.

And amongst them were pushing, with eager, hungry, dirty faces, men who
called themselves clerks, evil-disposed persons who traded under such
names as their owners could use no longer on their own account. These
prowlers amongst thieves, under the protection of the Law, were permitted
to extort what they could from the friends of miserable prisoners under
pretence of engaging counsel to defend them. Counsel they would engage
after a fashion--sometimes: but not unfrequently they cheated counsel,
client and the law at the same time, which is rather better than killing
two birds with one stone.

And the two friends, after threading their way through the obnoxious
crowd, came to the principal Court of the Old Bailey, called the "Old
Court," and a very