Excerpt from The Long Lane's Turning AS regards his profession, he had injected into the somewhat cut-and-dried legal life Of the old Capital an unusual and winning element of person ality and a method at variance with established usage. His very eccentricities had set him apart from the mass, who were SO glamoured with the sordid things of life; and the apparent contempt for material reward with which he defended poor and unknown clients as readily as rich and influential ones had its appeal to a class which possessed imagination and ideals. Zt here had seldom been a case in which he had not successfully employed a curious subterranean logic - an apparently wilful insistence upon what seemed at first glance the un vital and immaterial as a preliminary to a swift fvolte-face by which he turned the evidence at a new and unexpected angle Of inference, and drove home the doubt with a brilliant display Of oratory which captivated and for the moment convinced. In the four years in which he had stamped his indi viduality upon the town, not only had he never lost a criminal case, but he had created a certain convie tion that a trial in which he figured would Offer un mistakable elements Of surprise and entertainment. SO that the Criminal Court had come, in a way, to be the fashion, and the sombre chambers of justice saw many an assemblage that would have graced another sort of gathering. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.