for himself as well,--"and let me add that it gives me the sincerest
satisfaction to be able to testify in this manner to the veneration
which I have always entertained for woman; and I am quite sure that in
no long space of time you will have proved to us that the law cannot say
it has nothing to gain from her refining influence. For I remember my
_own_ mother, Mrs. Tarbell," said Judge Measy. The bar listened in awed
admiration. Mrs. Tarbell bit her lips, bowed, and thanked his honor as
best she could. The idea of suggesting that she was anybody's mother, or
that even if she had a family that was any reason for permitting her to
be a barrister! But from the other side of the court-room was heard an
expressive rustling, and audible whispers of satisfaction were wafted
across the lawyers on their chairs. Mrs. Pegley and her train were
sitting by, radiant, triumphant, majestic. The dignity of motherhood was
vindicated.

And now that Juddson and Tarbell were moving to their new offices, who
should also at the very same time become a tenant of the Land and Water
Insurance Company but the Honorable Franklin Blood Pope? The Land and
Water Company's new building was in a very desirable locality, and
several lawyers deserted their old nooks and corners to occupy its
spacious and well-calcimined apartments. Juddson and Tarbell took the
rooms on the back of the third floor, Mr. Pope those on the front ditto:
they were very near neighbors. In former days Mrs. Tarbell had often
complained to her husband of Mr. Pope's success. It was an argument that
men had not as much common sense as they pretended to have, she said, or
else they would see through Franklin B----'s absurd pretensions. "Even I
can perceive that the man is a humbug," she continued. "In fact, any
woman could. Why is he successful, then? Why has he an enormous
practice? Why has he been sent to Congress? If it is because he has a
majestic appearance and can talk a great deal, women certainly can