DISMISSED IT FROM HIS MIND
When , the .polite French.. jwisli to : compliment their friends in- Ireland, they - say that - the far-famed Irish " •wit is Gallic, rather than ° Gaelic,* •■essentially French.' Certainly the himior- of the educated Irishman, who is at once a gentleman and a scholar, is of the-pol-ished-shaft rather than, the broa-d-side order ; courteous, ' subtle, and charmingly' audacious: " "There's a story 'of that late brilliant' Lord "Russeir of Killowen, which ; illustrates the ~- point, - When ■ -Lord Russell was' "plain ' Mr. Russell, and when the late Mi\ Justice Denman ' Avas going the northern circuit, -an amusing- incident happened in court, in which • the future Lord Chief . J'ustice^eame off, the better by 'his "ready wit and his genial arrogance. ' One day, just before the. .rising . of the -court on a , wariu summer afternoon, some -very Ugh , words were flung from the bar to- the bench. ■'I cannot trust .myself, to administer reproof in my present condition of- sori?ow ' ami resentment,'" said the learned -judge, ' but 1 shall take the night to con- ' sider what I ought to do, an-d .when we. meet again to-morrow 'morning I will" annourice'"my determination. " In considerable commotion the^ court broke up, an.d on the following day it. was crowded in anticipation of ' a scene ' — an anticipation somewhat by Mr. Justice, Denman's entry -into' court .with, -if possi- ' ble, more 'than ordinary, solemnity. On- taking his ' seat, he opened the business oi the. day by saying : ;Mr.; Russell, since- the "court adjourned last evening; I have had the advantage of considering with' a bro'tli- - er judge the painful incident—' Upon wWichJ .JRussell quickly broke in with, 'My lord, I beg you "will not say a word more upon the subject, for I can iionestly assure -you ;that I have entirely and forever, dismissed , it from my memory '— ~" a turn of the tables wliich, -eVdlced - such a roar of laughter 4n the court that even the learned judge could not but join in it.
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New Zealand Tablet, 13 December 1906, Page 38
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