Bleak House, Vol. 1

ISBN: 9781332813391 出版年：2018 页码：494 Charles Dickens Forgotten Books

A chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular preju dice (at which point I thought the Judge's eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or so in its rate of progress, but this was exaggerated, and had been entirely owing to the parsimony of the public which guilty public, it appeared, had been, until lately, bent in the most determined manner on by no means enlarging the number of Chancery Judges appointed -i believe by Richard the Second, but any other King will do as well.