Perhaps, after days of this weary work, one of the Lawyers suddenly discovers that somebody, or something required in the intricate and dubious _processes_, is wanting; or in some document some erasure is detected; or something _to hang a point_ upon is seized hold of--and at once a wrangle between the Lawyers ensues. The Judge fairly awakes; the whole _case breaks down_ [kei-tz-se]; and everybody, but the poor victims in the case, anticipate more fees. The victims, however, who have already beggared themselves in it, suddenly despair; perhaps the case never again comes on, and the property involved in it wastes away in dark obscurity beneath the gnawing rats, which infest the Court. Sometimes (as I was told) some poor man, or woman, who had scraped together the last farthings to pay the Lawyers (for they will in no wise act unless paid beforehand, feeling that such service as they render is not likely to be gratefully recompensed, and it being the severest rule of the order never to show any pity for outsiders), being in Court when they see all hope destroyed, and themselves and their children beggared, have fallen down and been carried out of Court with reason for ever gone; or with such a deadly blow that never more do they revive, but soon die, and are buried at the public charge! You will see wretched creatures trying to look decent in well-brushed rags, darned and patched, with shoes through which the toes protrude, but over which the blacking [di-yte] is carefully smeared--you will see these victims of the Court, like ghosts, flitting about the passages, and watching for the entry of the Judge. One will attempt to address him--but he is conveniently deaf. He knows the _victim_ is there, and though a party may speak, has the right to speak for himself, and the Judge is bound to hear, yet, such a thing is unknown. The mysteries of the Court deny to any _sane_ man the attempt. These poor creatures are insane--or, what answers just as well, have been branded by the Lawyers as _Insane_. So the miserable wretch, trembling, raises his voice, "_My Lud_" (meaning my Lord), "My Lud;" here the Court-officer cries out _Silence_; or, if the man be, _for the first time_, attempting to call attention to his case, by the time he has got so far as to fairly say "My Lud!" what with the jeering looks of the Lawyers, his own ignorance of the mysteries, and his wretchedness, he either completely breaks down--or if the Judge, seeing a _new_ face, asks him to "go on"--almost at once perceives that the man is only a "poor ruined suitor," and is entirely out of order, and _cannot_ be heard! He says: "You must sit down. Case _Hoggs_ v. _Piggs is in order_. Mr. Clerk call _Hoggs and Piggs_." Thus "My Lud" will be as far as any "poor ruined suitor will ever get!"