upon the jury, said,--

"God forbid, prisoner at the bar, that the defence attempted by your
counsel yesterday should aggravate the punishment which I am about to
inflict upon you; and with a view to dispel from my mind all that was
then urged on your behalf, I have taken the night to consider what
sentence I ought to pronounce."

Having said thus much about the speech for the defence, he gave a very
moderate sentence of two or three months' imprisonment. Every
sentence that this Chief Justice passed had been well thought out and
considered, and was the result of anxious deliberation--that is to
say, in the serious cases that demanded it. Of course, I do not claim
for my adopted system an infallibility which belongs to no human
device, but only that during some years, by patiently following it, I
was enabled the better to determine how I could combine justice with
leniency.

CHAPTER XLV.

HOW I CROSS-EXAMINED PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON.

I have been often questioned in an indirect manner as to the amount of
my income and the number of my briefs. I do not mean by the Income Tax
Commissioners, but by private "authorities." I was often _told_ how
much I must be making. Sometimes it was said, "Oh, the Associates'
Office verdict books show this and that." "Why, Hawkins, you must
be making thirty thousand a year if you are making a penny. What a
hard-working man you are! How _do_ you manage to get through it?"

Well, I had no answer. It is a curious inquisitiveness which it would
do no one any good to gratify. I did not think it necessary to the
happiness of my friends that they should know, and if it would afford
_me_ any satisfaction, it was far better that they should name the
amount than I. They could exaggerate it; I had no wish to do so. It is
true enough in common language I worked hard, but working by system
made it easy. Slovenly work is always hard work; you never get through
it satisfactorily. It was by working easily that I got through so
much. "Never fret" and "_toujours pret_" were my mottoes, as I told
the chaplain; I hope he remembers them to this day. If they would not
help him to a bishopric, nothing would. But I will say seriously that
nothing is so great a help in our daily struggles as _good temper_,
and with that observation I leave my friends still to wonder how I got
through so much.

Judges often talk over their experiences at the Bar. Sometimes I
talked of mine, and on one occasion told