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next to him and here I was placed in front of the whole congrega- 

 tion. After the service was over, I was asked by the President, if I 

 would take lunch with him and I, of course, accepted and was 

 brought into the house where all the barristers lived and we sat 

 down to a lunch where all the chief lawyers of the Inner Temple 

 were assembled. 



After this, I was invited to what was called the Grand Dinner 

 of the Inner Temple, and there I met the Marquis of Lome and 

 many other gentlemen with whom I was acquainted more or less. 

 I chiefly remember one of the old lawyers taking me into the lib- 

 rary and showing me the wonderful collection of old law books. 

 There he told me that it was on account of the wonderful library 

 that they had that law cases were referred to them from the 

 colonies. The colonial lawyers were not deficient in knowledge, 

 but their libraries did not contain the precedence that was re- 

 quired to complete the cases. 



In the early summer, the Marquis of Salisbury invited a large 

 party of over two hundred to lunch at Hatfield, for which a special 

 train was provided. 



When we reached there, I found no acquaintance in the party 

 except Dr. May, of Toronto, with whom I walked up to the House. 

 In front of us, were two young gentlemen whom I took to be 

 Londoners. They reached the house in front of us and an old 

 lady received them on the steps to whom they made the most 

 elaborate and profound bow. She was dressed like a house- 

 keeper of standing in the olden time, and had a bright colored 

 belt around her waist and, attached to it, a large bunch of keys, 

 which were very prominent. Dr. May thought she was the house- 

 keeper and, I believe, almost felt annoyed at our reception as the 

 people who came in carriages drove round the house and were 

 received by the Marquis himself. On account of the keys, I 

 immediately decided that she was the Marchioness of Salisbury 

 herself and was acting as the chatelaine of the castle. I made my 

 bow, as well as a Canadian could do, and passed into the House. 

 After some conversation, we were addressed by a tall young man 

 who told us that, on account of the large party, his mother wished 

 the company to be informed that the gentlemen, accompanied by 



