‘ How charming you look !’ said a coalheaver to the gaily-dressed landlady of a small public-house. ‘ Thank you ;I am sorry 1 can’t return the compliment,’ she replied, with a bland smile. * You could if you told a lie, like I did,’ was the cool rejoinder.
‘ And when in after days,’ said a learned counsel in the court, ‘we meet together around the social hearth, where I shall no longer be oppressed by the heat and burden of the day, and you, gentlemen, will find yourselves in other scenes than this, at rest from arduous labors, then, as we talk together of bygone times, may you be able to say that the first thing you did on returning to the jury-room was to unanimously agree that you could place no reliance whatever upon the testimony of that man Smith.’
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 276, 30 April 1875, Page 3
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