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Enter, ''a scroll in his hand, which he examines attentively. He then pauses, and considers before he speaks to himself''.

Proofs like these should condemn any man; why should I recoil from the task? (Paces up and down, and then stopping short.) Would this business were put into other hands! My client is candid and specious, as far as speech is concerned, but that sinister eye, the play of those muscles by the mouth, the widening of the nostrils at every virtuous sentiment he utters:—physiognomy is the whimsy of simpletons, if there be any truth or sincerity in that man. But here he comes.

Well, learned Sir, having had full time for consideration, what think you of it now? (A pause.) You see, I found my prosecution on no slight or fanciful proofs. Thus it stands: next