Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-02-28

chambers. NV brother SAYS he could
not help noticing him. for he bristled
with intelligence, and knew a good deal
! of law, though he only looked boy.
The best OF the JOKE is that the clerk
afterward turned ont to be four years
older than that solicitor who took him
for boy.
He was now amongst books as well as
LAWYERS, and studied closely the princi-
pies of law while the practice was sharp
ening him. He was much in the courts,
and every case cited there in argument
/ or Judgment he hunted out in the books
and digested il. together with its appli-
cation in practice by the living Judge,
who had quoted, received, or evaded t.
He was a Baptist, and lodged with
Baptist minister and his two dang
| He fell in love with one of them, pro-
posed 10 her, and was accepted. The
couple were married without pomp, and
after the ceremony the good minister
took them aside and said Il have only
two hundred pounds in the world. /
have saved il, little at time, for my
two daughters. Here is your share, my
children" Then he gave his daughter
one hundred pounds, and she handed it
10 the bridegroom on the spot. The
good minister smiled approval, and they
sat down to what fine folks call break
fast but they called it dinner; and il
was.
After dinner and the usual ceren O.
MES. the bridegroom rose, and surprised
them little. He said. ii am sorry to
leave YOU, but have a particular bust
ness TO attend to. II will take me Just
one hour"
OF course there was look or two In
terchanged. especially by every female
there present. but the confidence In
him WAS too great to be disturbed, and
this was his first eccentricity.
He left them, went 10 Gray's Inn, put
him to be a barrister; but years and
dinners did. After some weary years he
took the oaths at Westminster, and va
Gated by that act his place in Bishop
Office, salary included, and was a pauper
for an afternoon. But work that has
been long and tediously prepared can
be executed quickly, and adverse cir
cunstances, when Perseverance CON
uuers them, turn round and become al
lies.
The ex clerk and young barrister had
plowed and sowed with such pain and
labor that he reaped with comparative
case. Half the managing clerks IN Lon
don knew him and believed in him.
They had the ear Of their employers,
aud brought him pleadings to draw and
motions to make. His book, too,
brought him clients: and he WAS soon
in full career as Junior counsel and
special pleader. Senior counsel soon
found that they could rely upon his
down his name rs a student for the bar.
paid away his wife's dowry i'll the fees,
and returned within the hour.
Next dav the married clerk was at the
office as usual. and entered on two
fold life. He worked as a clerk till five
dined IN the hall of Gray's Inn as a
sucking barrister, and studied hard Mt
night. This was followed 10y a still
stronger example Of duplicate existence.
and one without parallel in my read
ing and experience he became awriter,
and produced masterpiece, which as
regarded the practice OF our courts be-
came at once the manual OF attorneys,
counsel, and judges. The author,
though his book was entitled practice
showed some qualities of iurist. and
corrected soberly but firmly unscientitic
Legislature and judicial bluDders.
so here was student of Gay's Inn,
supposed to be picking up in that Inn
small smattering of law, vet 10 diversity
his crude studies, instructing mature
counsel, and correcting the judges them.
selves, at whose chambers he attended
daily, cap in hand. as an attorneys clerk.
There's AN intellectual hotch-potch for
Won. All this did not in his Inn qualify
zeal, accuracy. and learning. They be
gan TO request that he might be re
tanned with them in difficult cases. and
he became first junior counsel at the
bar and so much for perseverance.
Time rolled its ceaSelesS course, and
six gown was at his disposal. Now
popular junior can not always afford 10
take silk, as they call it. Indeed, II ne
is learned but not eloquent, he may
ruin himself by the change. But the
remarkable man whose career / am epit-
omizing did not hesitate; he still
pushed onward. And so one morning
the lord chancellor sat for All hour in the
queens bench, and Mr.. Robert Lush
was appointed one of her majesty's
counsel, learned in the law, and then
and there. by the chancellors invi-
tation, stepped out from among the
juniors, and took his seat within the
har. So much for perseverance,.
From this point the outline Of his
career is known o everybody. He was
appointed in 1865 one of the judges of
the queens bench, and after sitting in
that court some years. was promoted to
be lord justice OF appeal. A few days
ago ne died lamented and revered by
the legal profession, which is very criti-
cal. and does not bestow its respects
lightly.
knew him only as queens counsel.
L had him against me once, but oftener
for me, because my brother thought
him even then the best lawyer
and the most Jealous at the bar, and al
ways retained him if he could. During
the period knew him personally MIR.
Lush had still a plump, unwrinkled
cheek and singularly bright eye. His
voice was full, mellow and penetrating
it filed the court without apparent
effort, and accorded well with his style
of eloquence, which was what Cicero
calls the temperatum genus loquendi.
Reasoning carried to perfection is one
of the fine arts. An argument by Lush
unclaimed the ear and charmed the un-
derstanding. He began at the begin
ming, and each succeeding topic was ar
ticulated and disposed of, and succeed