the profession.'

'Scandal would say,' observed Mannering, 'he might not be the
worse lawyer for that.'

'Scandal would tell a lie, then,' replied Pleydell, 'as she
usually does. Law's like laudanum: it's much more easy to use it
as a quack does than to learn to apply it like a physician.'




CHAPTER LVII

Unfit to live or die--O marble heart!
After him, fellows, drag him to the block.

Measure for Measure.


The jail at the county town of the shire of----was one of those
old-fashioned dungeons which disgraced Scotland until of late
years. When the prisoners and their guard arrived there,
Hatteraick, whose violence and strength were well known, was
secured in what was called the condemned ward. This was a large
apartment near the top of the prison. A round bar of
iron,[Footnote: See Note 9.] about the thickness of a man's arm
above the elbow, crossed the apartment horizontally at the height
of about six inches from the floor; and its extremities were
strongly built into the wall at either end. Hatteraick's ankles