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THE JUDGE. A GLANCE AHEAD. Decenmmn 12, 1980, Simpkins vs. Geiver. FOR BREACH OF PROMISE-—BEFORE JUDGE JURISSA PRUDENCE. SPEECH OF MI MARIA EFFORTS, Counsel sor Paintlf. Your Hoxor axp Lapies or tHe Jury ‘The plaintiff in this action, for whom I have the honor to appear, is a most estimable and attractive young man. In the course of an | extensive, and, I m: ¥, profitable practice, Ihave never met a more agreeable and im pressive client than the one whose cause [am now proud to plead. It will be argued by my learned sister on the other side, that my client is too suscepti- ble. Ladies! I appeal to you, is susceptibility acrime? Is it not, on the contrary, a charm, a virtue? When the poctie mind, fired by some divine emotion, breaks forth in strains of most delightful harmony, we call it suscepti- and we p When the artistic eye, brighteni glances over some of nature's hi decked in the many autumnal hues with which she loves to adorn herself, transmits the sensa- tion, by the subtle telegraph of the brain, to the nimble finger, which in turn produces the counterpart of a living canvas, we call it. sus ceptibility, and praise it; and when a young man, reared in luxury, surrounded by every influence which is. calculated to elevate and exalt, with a heart teeming with love, and yearning for some object upon which to pour it forth, encounters one of the opposite sex in whom are united all the qualities which he | most admires, if he, yielding to feelings yond his control, pours forth his admiration at his ¢ , shall we blame him for susceptibility? No! not But I must be brief, Ladies, I have here | some 700 letters written by the defendant ; in the course of the trial these will all be read, but I simply propose now to read a few ¢ se it. armer’s tracts, for the purpose of showing the com: mencement, growth and final disastrous end- ing of this passion, The first letter is dated October 8, and con- tains the defendant's reply to my client's de- claration of attachment ; I desire to call | attention to the following sentence: “ You ask me to love you. Ido not know what love | is, but I think of you with pleasure, and be- | lieve T could b i The seo you since through with U your own loving and come hack to Dora, I wish to explain that Dordy is a pet name by which my client is known at home, and it was adopted by the defendant at his desire. The letters which follow are all of the same tenor, and up to this time there is no indica- tion of a change of base. On October 30, the defendant, in a letter overflowing tender expressions, exhibits an impatience | for the solemnization of the marriage cere- mony scarcely consistent with female delicacy; | THE SAME THING OVER g the Fourth Arenne Car Stables, Rebuitdi ings toward the p in the following langua, intif are set forth My Dorpy,—Three long weeks must n, with propriety, addre terre you publicly nT may clasp m| within. your pnt must have been the affection which inspired these sentiments I leave to you to imagine. But now, led upon to contemplate the distre: side of this act I appro and trembling, and I pra. | not to allow yourselves to be overcome with emotion, (May it please your Honor, I should like to in- quire whether the court bottle of smelling has been refilled.) Ladies, you will ob- serve that throughout the entire course of his courtship there has been no cause to com- plain of the conduct of my client. No, he has proved himself a courtier and gentle and when the defendant, looking back, as s certainly must, upon the many happy hours which, according to her own testimony, she has spent at his side, the agony of remorse which she must undergo will be a slight but just retribution for the sorrow and suffering she has caused him, (Your Honor, I must it to comment upon the pernicious habit which our jurywomen have contracted of bringing their fancy work into the jury-box.) On the afternoon of November 2, my client, ing ion. ch it with fear his love. not at home. tonished at He was informed that she was At first he was somewhat as- ing found her out, but he re- si — | AGAIN. | fected t able err the tenc c she was probably on some charit- J, with a heart swelling with he hastened to her | eseritoire for the purpose of inditing an invi- tation for that evening. W! a revul; of feeling he must have undergone upon by holding thi , conspicuously displayed: ion LGERNON FORWES PARKINSON, The absence is accounted for, and in a state of mind which I cannot attempt to de forth to seek the cons fond maternal parent alone could Prostrate on his , Surrounded family, and the seventeen phy: | stily summoned, be- hold the unfortunate victim of female du- The morning brings no consolation hing heart; but it brings from the false fair one a missive. With trembling. nd fluttering heart he breaks the seal. » cloquence of Demosthenes could not do eto the situation, La this female, unworthy of the name, exhibits her du- plici ies 'y and heartlessness in these words: rdon my abruptness, but I am under the king off rain from returning your testimonials of | Ido not desire altogether to forget you. I have met affirity, and am happy. That your fatare i he unclouded by a single care will ever be the pr | of yours sympathetically, Dora. Ladies, I have done. From what might have been a death-bed but for the tender care ith as was his wont, repaired to the dwelling of | of his devoted friends, my client comes to you—for what? Simply for a salve for his ‘ounded heart in the shape of ten thousand | dollars. E