"Oh, not at all, your lordship; I do not doubt your lordship's word. I must have been under a mistake." Sir Edward again resumed; and Lord Brougham, throwing his head back on his chair, looked up toward the ceiling. Lord Brougham had a great horror of hearing the interminable speeches which some of the junior counsel were in the habit of making, after he conceived every thing had been said which could be said on the real merits of the case before the court by the gentlemen who preceded them. His hints to them to be brief on such occasions were sometimes extremely happy. I recollect that, after listening with the greatest attention to the speeches of two counsel on one side, from ten in the morning till half-past two, a third rose to address the court on the same side. His lordship was quite unprepared for this additional infliction, and exclaimed, "What, Mr. A----, are _you_ really going to speak on the same side?" "Yes, my lord; I mean to trespass on your lordship's attention for a short time." "Then," said his lordship, looking the orator significantly in the face--"then, Mr. A----, you had better cut your speech as short as possible, otherwise you must not be surprised if you see me dozing; for really this is more than human nature can endure." The youthful barrister took the hint; he kept closely to the point at issue--a thing very rarely done by barristers--and condensed his argument into a reasonable compass. THE HOUSEHOLD OF SIR THO^S. MORE.[3] [3] Continued from the September Number. LIBELLUS A MARGARETA MORE, QUINDECIM ANNOS NATA, CHELSEIÆ INCEPTVS "Nulla dies sine linea." April, 1534. A heavier charge than either of y^e above hath been got up, concerning the wicked woman of Kent, with whom they accuse him of having tampered, that, in her pretended revelations and rhapsodies, she might utter words against the king's divorce. His name hath, indeed, been put in the bill of attainder; but, out of favor, he hath been granted a private hearing, his judges being, the new archbishop, the new chancellor, his grace of Norfolk, and Master Cromwell.