CHAPTER IV. 



THE MAGISTRATE— HIS ADDRESS— FIRST SOLICITOR— AN 

 IMPORTANT CASE — THE WAVERER— AN ASSAULT CASE 

 — A WANDERING WITNESS — NEXT CASE— MAN WITH 

 THE BAG— AN APPLICATION — PERSISTANCE — IMPA- 

 TIENCE — TIME— LUCID STORY— REMOVAL— NEXT CASE 

 —THE VAGRANT— A DECISION — NEXT CASE— ON V/E 

 GO AGAIN. 



R. SHARPLY I notice has a quick eye and a 

 surprised head of hair, which gives one the 

 idea of his having been interrupted in the pro- 

 cess of being brushed by machinery. 

 He has a brisk, crisp manner, and is evidently inchned 

 to be what people call "short" with everyone present — 

 specially the Clerk and the Solicitors. 



He stands up with the air of a man who is not to be bad- 

 gered or put down, and places his hands on the table-desk 

 in such a springy and elastic way as to suggest, that, on the 

 slightest provocation, he will vault over, dash in among the 

 papers and inkstands on the Solicitors' table, " scatter his 

 enemies, and make them fall." 



Everybody's breath is quite taken away by his sudden and 

 unexpected appearance. We are all, so to speak, staggered. 



