Once, it is true, under the glamour of her own girlish illusions, she was ready to expatriate herself, to endure an alien existence, and strange manners and customs for his beloved sake; but now, now that her ideal is shattered, her dream dispelled,--now, it is too late! Gentlemen, my client's answer is--and it is one which will only command your increased respect:--"No. He has broken my heart, undermined my belief in human nature, cast a blight upon my existence. (_~Miss M.~ sobs audibly, here, and ~JAB.~ is visibly affected._) Much as I should like to recover my old belief in him, much as it would be to my worldly advantage to marry a wealthy Bengali barrister with talents and influence which are certain to lead to rapid promotion in his native land (_~JAB.~ bows, and then shakes his head in protest_), he has made me suffer too much, I cannot accept him now!" (_The learned Counsel then dealt exhaustively with various portions of the case, and concluded thus._) Well, gentlemen, I shall not have to trouble you with many further remarks, but I will just say this before I sit down:--The defendant amongst innumerable other ingenious excuses, has pleaded for your indulgence on the score of poverty. He has the brazen effrontery to plead poverty, forsooth! after complacently admitting, in that box, that he is earning at this very moment an income by his pen alone that might be envied by many a hardworking English journalist! I do not say this by way of making any reflection upon the defendant; on the contrary, gentlemen, I consider it does credit to his ability and enterprise. (_~JAB.~ bows again._) But at the same time it disposes effectually of his allegation that he is without means, and indeed, leaving his literary gains entirely out of the question, it must have been obvious from what you have heard and seen of his manner of living in this country that he is amply provided with pecuniary resources. Bearing this in mind, gentlemen, I ask you to mark your sense of his heartless treatment of the plaintiff, and the mental and social injury she has suffered on his account, by awarding her substantial damages; not, I need scarcely say, in any spirit of vindictiveness, but as some compensation (however inadequate) for all she has gone through, and also as a warning to other ingratiating but unprincipled Orientals that they cannot expect to trifle with the artless affection of our generous, warmhearted English maidens without paying--aye, and paying dearly, too! for the amusement. (_He sits down amidst applause._) NOTE BY MR JABBERJEE.--Hon'ble Judge is to sum up after lunch. I am highly pained and disappointed that my friend WITHERINGTON should have shown himself a perfidious, and have taken the liberty as he quitted the Court to murmur the plaintive remonstrance of "_Et tu, Brute!_" into the cavity of his left ear.