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ld not for the world part their hair in any way differing from their fathers, nor would they adopt a modern convenience unless it were ab

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sheet of legal paper had to be drawn up. It was a very plain matter-forty words would have been sufficient. But a solicitor must be employed nevertheless. How much do you suppose it cost Mr. Foote to have this trifle of work done? As a matter of instruction to the Amer

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he had to do with it, put in a similar bill against t

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piece of business footed up exactly seventy-two p

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to his office and told him in three minutes' time

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y unnecessary, as they related to matters of which I fully informed him at the beginning. But he was the most industrious letter writer I ever saw. And I would answer his letters like an idiot, and he charged for replying to mine, and

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grams, till the crack o' doom. Instead of bills of four pages I should have had bills of forty, and then there would have been money to be paid on account, and bail, and the Lord only knows what. A law suit in London means ruin to everybody but the lawyers and officers of the court. And in the end I should have been compelled to pay it, for the courts take care of the attorneys. And, af

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m about carrying a bag which is supposed to contain papers of great moment. My lease was all that was in that bag for a month or more. He lives well all the time, for no matter how poor he may be, or how little business he has, he must live well for the sake of appearance. Finally he does get the management of a good estate, and is fixed for life. An Englishman reposes confidence in his solicitor, and would no more think of disputing a c

ritten this. But I copied this bill from the original, which was receipted by the attorney, who, doubt