rthwaite?"

"Why no, Mr. Haye! -- of course! -- I mean Mr. Landholm has -- a
cause that he was to argue, you know -- that's what I mean --
before Chancellor Justice -- and Mr. Satterthwaite says he did
it splendidly! -- he said everybody stood and looked; -- and the
Chancellor gave him everything he asked for -- made all his
exceptions, he said, whatever that means --"

"_Allowed_ his exceptions," said Elizabeth.

"O you could listen when Mr. Satterthwaite was speaking of
Winthrop Landholm!"

"Mr. Satterthwaite don't often have so good a subject. I
listened certainly, and was very much interested; -- the only
time I ever remember Mr. Satterthwaite's saying anything I
cared to hear."

"Well, now, Mr. Haye, why isn't it just as well to say '_made_
an exception,' as '_allowed_ an exception'? I don't think
'allowed an exception' is good English."

"It is good law English, I suppose, Rose."

"Well, I don't care -- at any rate, he said the Chancellor
allowed every one of Mr. Landholm's exceptions, -- suppose _you_
understand it; -- and wouldn't allow a single thing to Mr.
Brick; and Mr. Brick was the lawyer on the other side; and Mr.
Satterthwaite said it was a great triumph for Mr. Landholm."

"Dustus O. Brick?" said Mr. Haye.

"Yes," said Elizabeth.

"I don't know," said Rose; "he said Mr. Brick, -- or the noted
Mr. Brick -- I suppose that's the man."

"Dustus O. Brick!" said Mr. Haye -- "he's one of the best men
in the bar, and a very clever man too; a distinguished lawyer;
there's no one more thought of."

"That's what Mr. Satterthwaite said, -- he said so, -- he said
it was a great triumph for Mr. Landholm; -- and now Mr. Haye,
_won't_ you ask him to come here again as he used to?"

"Who?"

"Winthrop Landholm."

"What for?"

"Why I want to _see_ him -- and so do you, Mr. Haye. Now Mr.
Haye, won't you? -- Though I don't know but Elizabeth would be
the best one to ask him."

"Why?" dryly said the master of the house.

"I guess he'd be more likely to come."

"If I thought so, and it were my part to do it, I certainly
should ask him," said Elizabeth. "There isn't any person so
pleasant as he to take his place, among all that come here."

"You were glad of what Mr. Satterthwaite told us last night
weren't you?" said Rose with a sinister smile.

"Very glad!"

"Did you ever hear Mr. Satterthwaite go on so about anybody?
One would have thought Mr. Landholm was his own brother. I
wonder if that w