Date: 1889
Mr. Wedderburn drew a long face.  He had no more reason to wish the money to go to Dr. Davenal than to the clergyman and his brother, but it was altogether so unusual a mode of proceeding, would be so very unprofessional a transaction, that he regarded it as an innovation hardly to be tolerated, a sort of scandal on aU recog nised notions in the legal world, of which Mr. Wedderburn himself was little better than a machine . "  I cannot undertake it without your giving me instructions in writing, Dr. Davenal," he said somewhat shortly.