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... - one pounds , five shillings , and sixpence , and was paid to a fraction ; but I lost my client ! I did afterwards conduct for him an appeal to the privy council , involving a com- paratively IN SEARCH OF PRACTICE . 11.
... - one pounds , five shillings , and sixpence , and was paid to a fraction ; but I lost my client ! I did afterwards conduct for him an appeal to the privy council , involving a com- paratively IN SEARCH OF PRACTICE . 11.
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... shilling in the pound , I succeeded in extricat- ing my " honorable " client , and comfortably left her to make the best shift she could on some twelve hundred a - year . I was never asked for my costs , nor ever asked her for them ...
... shilling in the pound , I succeeded in extricat- ing my " honorable " client , and comfortably left her to make the best shift she could on some twelve hundred a - year . I was never asked for my costs , nor ever asked her for them ...
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... shillings for the carriage , and two more for the porter- age ; but where it came from , except from that Maelstorm of parcels and passengers , the Golden Cross , or what it contained , he knew no more than the dead . I again suspected ...
... shillings for the carriage , and two more for the porter- age ; but where it came from , except from that Maelstorm of parcels and passengers , the Golden Cross , or what it contained , he knew no more than the dead . I again suspected ...
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Samuel Warren. stones and brickbats , by way of apology for demanding seventeen shillings , but there was a sweet promise about the venerable chest , which determined me on venturing , and I paid for , and received the charge . Day after ...
Samuel Warren. stones and brickbats , by way of apology for demanding seventeen shillings , but there was a sweet promise about the venerable chest , which determined me on venturing , and I paid for , and received the charge . Day after ...
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... shillings , and pence . Mr. Bumby was an early client of mine , for whom I felt consid- erable regard . Accident led me one day to his shop to purchase some trifling article of jewel- ery . I have a natural disposition to indulge in ...
... shillings , and pence . Mr. Bumby was an early client of mine , for whom I felt consid- erable regard . Accident led me one day to his shop to purchase some trifling article of jewel- ery . I have a natural disposition to indulge in ...
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