Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-01-01

sparrow 10 TALL without taking account OF H..
saw you and loved you. AT first my gay
companions tried to laugh me out of my pas
sion; bu, every day showed me more aud more
of your amiabIi,y, modes,y and correct princi-
pies You know the rest. | chose wisely in
abandoning fortune tina, would have made me
a slorh, and nigh, have been my ruin"
"But it pains me when see you toling thus.
You will injuTe your health by over-appica,ion.
Let be conien,ed with less"
"Calm your fears dearest. My health sus-
,ains no injury. and i, is only for the past week
that my application has been so severe. This
mass of papers belongs to very complicated
and important case which was anxious TO
master, for it will be the reputation of any one
man thoroughly to understand it, and consd-
er myself fortunate in being retained. 1t shows
that my fame is extending and that am no lon
ger drone in society, bu. an honored and USE
full citizen. We should all do some good; we
owe it to our fellow creatures; and feel far
happier since have been able, by means Of
my profession to redress I'M mies and right the
wronged. know you sometimes think over
work myself, and tha, do i, for your sake; bu,
il is not wholly so: toll now from sense of
duty, and enjoy supreme pleasure in doing so.
have done enough, however, for to ght--l
think | thoroughly comprehend the case--so
we will lay aside The papers. But next week
shall expect you 10 be very proud Of me, for
intend to win this, my first great cause, in
The teeth Of the opinion expressed by our old
est lawyers and if do SO, il will restore an
estate TO widow and her children, who have
been defrauded Of it by miserly old man, who
does not hesitate TO say he has the letter Of the
will in his favor, and cares nothing for its spir-
it, Blu, we shall see If | win this cause, my
fortune will be assured, and then you need have
no more fears, as see you now have"
Earnest Ormond has told his own story so
well that we have norhng 10 add 10 ii. Three
years had now elapsed since his union with Isa-
bel Rowe, and during lha, period he had risen TO
considerable eminence in his profession, sur
prising his friend, by the facility with which
the idle man of fashion had been transformed
into the sludious and business-like lawyer But
there had been fund of latent energy hidden
under the gay exterior of Earnest, and when
his uncle disnheri'ed him, he applied himself
at once TO the study of the law, supporting
himself ou, of small legacy to which he was
entitled in his own right. Early and late he
was at his books; and, when the time came foI
his examination, he was admitted to the bar
with the highest honors. His energetic appli
cation TO his lahorious profession soon brought
him clients. Gifted with grea, natural talents
which hitherto had been allowed to rust from
disuse, he speedily became distinguished: suits
Of importance began to find their way to him
and a, length, by the advice of one of The oldes
and most sagacious members of the bar; who
had been applied to bni could no, undertake i
in consequence of other business, he was en-
trusted with case. considered well nigh des
perate, but one involving an immense amoun
of properly, and enlstng all the best feelings
of the heart in its favor. |, was this case it
which he had alluded in The foregoing con,er
saton with his wife.
"WelI, Ormond, do you think you will bt
able 10 do anything 'o-day!" said one of the op
posing lawyers rather sneeringly, when he came
inlo court "You might as well own The weak
ness of your case and save US the trouble o
pleading
"'Faini heart never won fair lady," retortet
Earnest, aud bowling to the court, he said, 81
your honor pleases, | will 60 on"
He had nn, spoken for more than half al
hour, before the triumphant looks of the oppo
sing patty became changed TO lhose Of alarm
for TO The as,onisl.nenl of all, he boldly assert
ted that The case which they relied on
precedent, was itself bad law, and coniradicle,
, IN dozen instances In the books. He pro
ceeded to enforce this assertion with such al
array of authority, and to enlarge on the absurd
iiy of the precedent with such cogency of rea
son, that gIances of conslernaion began 10 b.