triumphant Counsellor Allewinde, that wicked false witness, with his
shallow, detected device. He played with him like a cat does with
a mouse--now letting him go for a moment, with the vain hope that
he was to escape--then again pouncing on him, and giving him a
fresh tear; till at last, when the young man was desired to leave
the chair, one was almost inclined to detest the ingenuity of the
ferocious lawyer more than the iniquity of the false witness.

This case was now over; the bailiff again held up his head; the
landlord gained his cause; the farmer was sent to prison, and the
blind and deaf witness sneaked out of town in shame and disgrace.
This came of not letting well alone.

The Wednesday was now advanced, and it was settled that there would
not be time for the great murder case, as poor Thady's affair was
called. Besides, Mr. Allewinde was also to conduct that, and he
wanted some rest after his exertions; and as he walked out with
triumph, some minor cases were brought forward for disposal, and Mr.
O'Laugher rushed into the other court to defend Terence O'Flanagan
before Mr. Justice Kilpatrick, against the assaults made upon his
pocket by that willow-wearing spinster, Letitia Murphy.

In rushed also all the loungers from the other court. In such a place
as Carrick-on-Shannon, a breach of promise of marriage case is not an
every day treat, and, consequently, men are determined to make the
most of it. Counsellor O'Laugher runs his hands through his dark grey
hair, opens wide his light blue eye, pulls out the needful papers
from that bottomless bag, and though but the other moment so signally
defeated in the other court, with sure trust in his own resources
prepares for victory.

The case is soon stated. Mr. Terence O'Flanagan, with five
hundred a-year, profit rents, out of the town and neigbourhood of
Mannhamilton, has, to the palpable evidence of the whole and next
baronies, been making up, as the phrase goes, to Letty Murphy, for
the last six months. This has been no case of Bardell _v._ Pickwick,
but a real downright matter of love-making on the one side, and love
made on the other. Letters, too have been written, and are now to be
read in court, to the great edification of the unmarried jury, and
amusement of the whole assemblage; and the deceitful culprit has gone
so far as to inform the father, Murphy, that he has a thousand pounds
saved to settle, if he, the father, has another to add to it. All
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