His Other Wife: A Novel — page 299: what you’re looking at

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MISTRESS AND MAID, 291 CHAPTER XXXII, MISTRESS AND MAID, A period of several weeks has elapsed since we left Mathew Croft. silently combating the singular. situation in which he found himself placed—imprisoned on the charge of a felony so dark, and surrounded by people who, in the time of his arrogant prosperity, accepted his civilities and accorded him their own, yet now, in the hour of his calamitous need, left him to a friendless solitude. Too haughty to press for reasons as to the refusal of the two lawyers who had rejected his case, with the large fee assured for their services, and the still larger one caqn- tingent on his safe delivery from the disgraceful position he now occupied, he determined to engage a young attorney of inferior standing at the bar, merely to collect the neecssary materials for the preparation of his defense, and to follow the illustrious yet fatal example of the celebrated criminal, Eugene Aram, by acting as his own counsel. In alle of his legal encounters with his brethren of the bar, Mathew Croft had found himself eminently successful in seizing upon and using those unexpected turns in the evidence for which neither side could be wholly prepared ; # Gomichoo .S'. (E(e) =|