AN ESTEEMED GENTLEMAN.
"Thank you, sir," said counsel, in the big "will" case. "Your memory for dotail is one that might well be cultivated by other witnesses. And, sir, oh behalf of the numerous relations of the testator who are present in Court, I should like to thank you for the very flattering, though not the less truthful, description you have given of that eiteemed gentleman, now, alas, no moral" A murmur of applauas went round the Court. "I preiuroe, iir," continued, counsel, "that you were very intimate with the testator during his lifetime." "No! That is—er—nol" answered the witness somewhat lamely. "In fact, I never law him in my life." "But, really, sir," commented- the grieved barrister, '"I fail to see how you could otherwise give such an accurate description of him if you never " "Perhaps you will understand better when I tell you that I married his widow!"
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 15 August 1925, Page 17
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150AN ESTEEMED GENTLEMAN. Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 15 August 1925, Page 17
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