Excerpt from Ten Thousand a-Year, Vol. 2 of 3
"The Attorney-general did his work very fairly, I thought - eh, Lynx?" said Mr Subtle, as arm-in-arm with Mr Lynx, he quitted the castle-gates, each of them on his way to their respective lodgings, to prepare for the next day"s work.
"Yes - he"s a keen hand, to be sure: he"s given us all work enough; and, I must say, it"s been a capital set-to between you I"m very glad you got the verdict!"
"It wouldn"t have done to be beaten on one"s own dunghill. as it were - eh? By the way, Lynx, that was a good hit of yours about the erasure - I ought, really, if it had occurred to me at the time, to have given you the credit of it - "twas entirely yours, Lynx, I must say."
"Oh, no!" - replied Lynx modestly. "It was a mere accident my lighting on it; the merit was, the use you made of it!"
"To think of ten thousand a-year turning on that same trumpery erasure!"
"But are you sure of our verdict on that ground, Mr Subtle: Do you think Lord Widdrington was right in rejecting that deed?"
"Right? to be sure he was! But I own I got rather uneasy at the way the Attorney-general put it - that the estate had once been vested, and could not be subsequently de-vested by an alteration or blemish in the instrument evidencing the passing of the estate - eh? that was a good point, Lynx."
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