A Lawyer's Face.
Mr, afterwards Baron, Platt had a decidedly comic physiognomy, and took much delight in assuming' melancholy airs. On one occasion, wheu he was before Lord Lyndhurst, the judge said to him: — "Pray spare us that wife-and-twelve-children face !' But the woe-begone looks which had so little effect upon the judge served at times to impress the jury ; and in a breach of promise case Mr PJatt gained for his client more damages than might otherwise have been awarded to her by winding up with the pathetic outburst : — " And, gentlemen, this serpent in human shape stole the virgin heart of my unfortunate client whilst she was returning from confirmation !"
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Otago Witness, Issue 1640, 28 April 1883, Page 28
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110A Lawyer's Face. Otago Witness, Issue 1640, 28 April 1883, Page 28
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