the garden in the evening?
_A._ We did not.
_Q._ What was the purpose of his calling in the evening?
_A._ Merely to answer the purpose of the morning, we meant to do
something in the garden; he said he would call if he came that way in
the evening, to tell me when he would draw a plan for the work I was
going to do in the garden; I was going to build a room there.
_Q._ He was to draw a plan?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ In the evening he called about the same business?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Was any further answer to be given to him?
_A._ This was the business; I was going to turn the front part of my
house into an inn, and to make the back part of my house into pleasure
grounds.
_Q._ And you had consulted him about the mode of doing it?
_A._ Yes, I had; Mr. De Berenger told me he could make out a handsome
plan for me.
_Lord Ellenborough._ Did he tell you what you were to pay for it?
_A._ That house was not his, I pay L.60 a year for it.
_Q._ He did not tell you, that from L.200 to L.300 would not be
excessive for a good plan?
_A._ Not for that plan.
_Q._ What did you expect to pay for a good plan?
_A._ That depended upon what sort of plan it might be, they might make a
good plan worth that.
_Q._ You would not scruple paying that for a good plan?
_A._ I think I should for that for I had not the money to pay it.
_Q._ He put down the measurements in the morning?
_A._ Yes, he paced it over, but he told me he would come again and
measure it quite correct.
_Q._ He put down the figures?
_A._ I do not know precisely whether he did or not.
_Q._ He had his pencil?
_A._ Yes, and a ten-foot rod that he carried.
_Q._ Did he bring a ten-foot rod to walk with?
_A._ I have a ten-foot rod myself, as a cabinet maker, and Mr. De
Berenger paced it over.
_Q._ What sort of a morning was this?
_A._ A damp cold morning, a kind of misty rain; very cold.
_Mr. Richardson._ He said he would call at a subsequent time?
_A._ Yes, he did; here are all the designs.
_Q._ Those are the designs of furniture?
_A._ Those are the designs of furniture that I made for Miss Johnstone,
or the honourable Cochrane Johnstone, for furniture in Great Cumberland
Street; I believe I have some notes respecting them.
_Cross-examined by Mr. Adolphus._
_Q._ Mr. De Berenger came to you, as a friend of Mr. Cochrane Johnstone,
to give you plans for Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?
_A._ That was the case.
_Q._ He
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