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early hour. As it was vacation-time, some of us 

 went to chambers, and I lived in mine, so as to avoid 

 the interruptions of the west end of the town. In the 

 evening I went among the members of both Houses, 

 both at Brooke's and in the families which I knew 

 they frequented. This gave me the means of ascer- 

 taining, as we proceeded, the effects of the evidence 

 and of the arguments on both sides. We had our 

 second consultation at the rising of the House ; and 

 sometimes, on reconsidering the day's proceedings, 

 such of my colleagues as had anything pressing to 

 suggest, which might be too late at the next morning's 

 consultation, would come to me so late as to be certain 

 of my having returned to Lincoln's Inn Fields, where 

 my chambers then were. This happened in a remark- 

 able part of the evidence. Majocchi had been ex- 

 amined in chief, and Copley had purposely protracted 

 his examination until it was too late for us to take off 

 the effect of his evidence by cross-examination of 

 which we complained, because it made its impression, 

 unaffected by our attacks, the whole of that evening 

 on the House of Lords, and the next day also in the 

 town. I had gone to bed early, being a good deal 

 fatigued, and Tindal, with Wilde, called, and were 

 shown into my bedroom. They had come for the 

 purpose of going through our shorthand-writer's note 

 of Majocchi's evidence, which they had considered 

 carefully, and with the view of offering such sugges- 

 tions as had occurred to them for his cross-examina- 

 tion. We went through the different parts of the 

 evidence that most pressed upon us, and they went 

 away. But something further having occurred to 

 them, they came back immediately, and found me 



