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Title: The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney
Author: Samuel Warren
Release Date: May 18, 2004 [EBook #12371]
Language: English
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THE EXPERIENCES OF A BARRISTER,
AND
Confessions of an Attorney.
BY SAMUEL WARREN
1880
CONTENTS.
THE MARCH ASSIZE
THE NORTHERN CIRCUIT
THE CONTESTED MARRIAGE
THE MOTHER AND SON
"THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS"
ESTHER MASON
THE MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT
THE SECOND MARRIAGE
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
"THE ACCOMMODATION BILL"
THE REFUGEE
THE LIFE POLICY
BIGAMY OR NO BIGAMY
JANE ECCLES
"EVERY MAN HIS OWN LAWYER"
THE CHEST OF DRAWERS
THE PUZZLE
THE ONE BLACK SPOT
THE GENTLEMAN BEGGAR
A FASHIONABLE FORGER
THE YOUNG ADVOCATE
A MURDER IN THE TIME OF THE CRUSADES
CONFESSIONS OF AN ATTORNEY.
THE MARCH ASSIZE.
Something more than half a century ago, a person, in going along Holborn,
might have seen, near the corner of one of the thoroughfares which
diverge towards Russell Square, the respectable-looking shop of a glover
and haberdasher named James Harvey, a man generally esteemed by his
neighbors, and who was usually considered well to do in the world. Like
many London tradesmen, Harvey was originally from the country. He had
come up to town when a poor lad, to push his fortune, and by dint of
steadiness and civility, and a small property left him by a distant
relation, he had been able to get into business on his own account, and
to attain that most important element of success in London--"a
connection." Shortly after setting up in the world, he married a young
woman from his native town, to whom he had been engaged ever since his
school-days; and at the time our narrative commence
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