SAMUEL WARREN,~ AUTHOR OF "DIARY OF A PHYSICIAN," LAW STUDIES" ETC. FOURTH EDITION. LELAND STANFORD. NEW YORK: JAMES COCK CROFT 1874. LIBRARY OF THE LELAND STANFORD, JR., UNIVERSITY LAW DEPARTMENT. ADVENTURES, &c. CHAPTER I. "Quos clientes nemo habere velit."-CIC. THERE is something vastly agreeable in the first day of a professional life; clerkship, servitude, and drudgery are all at an end; one no longer asks the hour, with sore consciousness of being too late for office, or dire misgivings of having being inquired for; and racking one's wits in vain for some new excuse, not yet exhausted, of "gone to the Temple," "examining an abstract," or "serving a notice!" I was in such a desperate hurry to begin, that though I had not a client nor the dream of one, and was filled with lofty ambition to do the thing well, and start with all the magnificence of a house, I had not patience to wait till I |