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! rogues must undergo a great amount of very hard work . Difficult as it is to be innocent , or commonly honest , in this wicked world , we doubt whether it is not easier to be so , than to make ourselves the centre of so many nets , intended to entangle others , but whose unexpected effect may possibly be to catch just our own legs .
As a mere man , it is no part of the policy of a lawyer to deal double with you . He is not necessarily cruel . There is no absolute need for his heart to be of re # cornelian . But as a machine of red tape;—as one who , in some sort , looks upon a book of costs as his Bible ;—as one who , to a single thing to tell , has a thousand things
to suppress ;¦—as a gentleman who has to arrange little technical affairs and to sell you up if it he needful , it is a very different affair . We cite the remarks of a very clever friend of ours , who , in some sharp observations , has chosen to proffer his say concerning the lawyers- —himself being one of the number .
, " Meu act too often , in the present day , as if they were all their own greedy and malignant solicitors . Let us dream a fanciful picture of one of the latter . Imagine a firm of two partners , a dyspeptic and malignant partner , and an easy and genteel partner . There
is the polite assurance , and the fox-like , clear-eyed caution . One mixes in the world ; the other meditates upon the world at his desk . But they are cautious , and do not steal pocket handkerchiefs ; therefore , they continue with their hold brass-plate , and prosperav , prosper vigorously .
"A widow and a prodigal pass through their hands . There is advice and friendship for these , if clients . There is . the trap , with its steel teeth , if foes . But as either , they equally suffer . The Queen ' s Bench Prison and the workhouse—or something like either—await them . They pass away—having yielded their cash-bag—and the ' firm' rubs its hands and moves on its way rejoicing . Those hands are not dirty—there is water and a jack-towel in the office .
" They spread their toils for new game . They do not intend evil . The vast perversion of the law serves them better than if they did . They have done nothing criminal—perhaps nothing wrong in the world ' s view . They have only committed moral robbery and extortion . Ingratitude is no crime—it is only a forgetfulness . Betrayal is not exactly defined . Insinuation , although an electric , and that can sting , is an . eel you cannot grasp . Men , like these , only arm
against your property . But in a highly civilised state of society like ours—property is life . Eor a man who has nothing may be literally said to have no life . " Every damage may he done to you , until you become as a mere shell into which Despair may creep . Ton are an empty peascod .
Society throws its husks out of its lap . Anything may be done to you . Still you have no redress . To take your stick and iall foul of those who have ruined you , is to get yourself handed over to a policeman . To inform the public , is to be prosecuted for libel , and the public will not pay your damages . To remonstrate , is to make yourself ridiculous . Thus it is , that you may he cheated , betrayed , and
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! rogues must undergo a great amount of very hard work . Difficult as it is to be innocent , or commonly honest , in this wicked world , we doubt whether it is not easier to be so , than to make ourselves the centre of so many nets , intended to entangle others , but whose unexpected effect may possibly be to catch just our own legs .
As a mere man , it is no part of the policy of a lawyer to deal double with you . He is not necessarily cruel . There is no absolute need for his heart to be of re # cornelian . But as a machine of red tape;—as one who , in some sort , looks upon a book of costs as his Bible ;—as one who , to a single thing to tell , has a thousand things
to suppress ;¦—as a gentleman who has to arrange little technical affairs and to sell you up if it he needful , it is a very different affair . We cite the remarks of a very clever friend of ours , who , in some sharp observations , has chosen to proffer his say concerning the lawyers- —himself being one of the number .
, " Meu act too often , in the present day , as if they were all their own greedy and malignant solicitors . Let us dream a fanciful picture of one of the latter . Imagine a firm of two partners , a dyspeptic and malignant partner , and an easy and genteel partner . There
is the polite assurance , and the fox-like , clear-eyed caution . One mixes in the world ; the other meditates upon the world at his desk . But they are cautious , and do not steal pocket handkerchiefs ; therefore , they continue with their hold brass-plate , and prosperav , prosper vigorously .
"A widow and a prodigal pass through their hands . There is advice and friendship for these , if clients . There is . the trap , with its steel teeth , if foes . But as either , they equally suffer . The Queen ' s Bench Prison and the workhouse—or something like either—await them . They pass away—having yielded their cash-bag—and the ' firm' rubs its hands and moves on its way rejoicing . Those hands are not dirty—there is water and a jack-towel in the office .
" They spread their toils for new game . They do not intend evil . The vast perversion of the law serves them better than if they did . They have done nothing criminal—perhaps nothing wrong in the world ' s view . They have only committed moral robbery and extortion . Ingratitude is no crime—it is only a forgetfulness . Betrayal is not exactly defined . Insinuation , although an electric , and that can sting , is an . eel you cannot grasp . Men , like these , only arm
against your property . But in a highly civilised state of society like ours—property is life . Eor a man who has nothing may be literally said to have no life . " Every damage may he done to you , until you become as a mere shell into which Despair may creep . Ton are an empty peascod .
Society throws its husks out of its lap . Anything may be done to you . Still you have no redress . To take your stick and iall foul of those who have ruined you , is to get yourself handed over to a policeman . To inform the public , is to be prosecuted for libel , and the public will not pay your damages . To remonstrate , is to make yourself ridiculous . Thus it is , that you may he cheated , betrayed , and