temptation for your husband that your in charles who his cousin s is limited by his vanity which in estates and can so well appreciate a instead of it while there is yet time lam madam yours mb � retire from a that cousin has lost hy no fault of his own silence in the court i the judge i must request that there ence which appears to be useless and might if pro may be no of feeling longed draw some bitter remark from me as it has counsel i will endeavor to ce none from y � j my lord it is a very simple case and i f hall the trial which you court and i ot occupy vou long gentlemen mr jn y eye poor he is proud and � � of fortune like a gentleman � like a man he has not in this match between a la er government for a place he has and a lady each gained an advantage the not nor lamented he has dignified lawyer s letters as might have been ex poverty by prudence and sell were the best adapted to be read to denial and unable to that he is a a jury but the lady in her way he has put by a little money every obtained at a small sacrifice what she year and bought a small estate or t wo wanted and that without raising the slight and had even applied to the lord suspicion of her true motive in the ant to make him a justice of the peace when a most severe and unexpected blow she announced her success to mr fell upon him amongst those large in the midst of it she with ter who respected him in spite op his at the thought of what sir charles circumstances was mr would say to her for writing to mr one of the county members well all men on the st of last may mr re she now with the of her a letter from mr hard e hoped and prayed mr would ing one to be from sir charles admit the letter and so all her � and pains prove superfluous the judge does sir charles secretly but with a lovely face admit the letter and serene front she took her place at the s counsel after a word with beside the judge and got as near yes my lord him as she could s counsel a letter admitted to the court was crowded and many ladies be written by sir charles that present letter shall be read to you y was called in a loud the letter was then read voice there was a hum of excitement then the counsel resumed conceive if yon a silence of expectation and the s can the effect of this blow just as my rose to address the happy and most deserving was rising a little in the world i shall prove that it mat it please your gen excluded him from mr s house of the jury � the in this and other too he is a man of case is the di too much importance to risk he and representative of that old has never entered the door of any honorable family whose monuments man in this county since his powerful to be seen in several churches in this published this cruel he has county and whose estates are the largest i his cloak around him and believe in the county he would have he your verdict to resume that place succeeded as a matter of course to those amongst you which is due to him in every estates but for an arrangement made only way due to him as the heir in direct line to a year before he was bom by which con the wealth and above all lo the honor of e e t a � w � m � p se ts t im aa s e � ere a terrible temptation would be si the facts speak for themselves call james esq mr proved the receipt of the letter from sir charles and that he had sent it to mr and that mr had not entered his house since then nor had he invited him mr was then and being duly trained by from all neat and wore an air of dignified his counsel examined him and his replies bore out the opening statement everybody thought him sure of a verdict he was then cross examined s counsel pressed him about his unfair way of shooting the judge interfered and said that was trifling if there was no substantial defence why not settle the matter there is a defence my lord then it is time you disclosed it very well n y lord mr did you ever write an letter not that i remember o that appears to you a trifle it is not so considered the judge be more particular in your question i will my lord did you ever write an letter to make mischief between charles and lady never said the witness but he turned pale do you mean to say you did not write this letter to miss look at the letter mr before you reply cast one swift glance of agony at then himself like iron he examined the letter attentively turned it over lived an age and said it was not his writing � f do you swear that � certainly counsel i shall ask your to take down that reply if persisted in my will the witness for s counsel don t threaten the witness as well as insult him please the judge he is an educated man and knows the duty he owes to god and the take time mr and recollect did you write that letter no my lord counsel waited for the judge to note the reply then proceeded you have lately with lady i think yes her 