t Mr James Hancock's most prized clients was a young gentleman of the name of Bevan; the

inhabited a set of chambers in the "Albany," midway betwe

imself or in the world around him, and possessed of a fine, furious, old-fashioned temper; a temper that would burst out over an ill-cooked beef steak or

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appointment. To his friends it seemed so, and it seemed a pity, for he was an orphan and very wealthy, and had no unpleasant vices. He possessed Highshot Towers and five

mes each morning, and Strutt was kept informed as to the price of Consols by the state of his master's temper, also as to the dividends declared by

ds to the Charity Organisation Society, and the Hospitals,[Pg 38] feeling sure that money invested in these

people in general-every one, in fact, beyond the pale of what he was pleased to call "Re

, down in Bucks. How the Lamberts had held together as a family for four hundred years, certain; through the spacious times of Elizabeth, the questionable time of Charles, the winter of the Commonwealth; how the ship of Lambert passed entire between the Scylla of the Cocoa tree and the charybdis of Crock

h, and retrieved his horses and his carriages, and at five o'clock of a bright May morning rose from the table having eternally broken and ruined Fiennes, was a story current in the days when William, the first of the Be

rt and the present Charles Bevan were cousins of a sort, cousins that had never spoken one to[Pg 40] the other, and, moreover, at the present moment, were engage

superintend some alterations, had found in the gun-room a fishing-rod, and yielding to

led his keeper, and who, according to Strutt, swam the stream like an

g its turn to appear before the Lords Justices of Appeal. It was stated, such was the animus with which this lawsuit was conducted, that George Lambert w

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