"I don't know at what time your lordship proposes to rise."

"Renew your application by-and-by."

("We won't go home till morning!" from the mess-room.)

"Keep that door shut! How many more witnesses have you got, Mr.
Williams?"

Mr. Williams, counting: "About—ten—eleven—"

"And you, Mr. Jones?"

"About the same number, my lord."

It was twenty minutes to one.

"I shall not sit any longer to oblige any one," said Sir Henry, closing his book with a bang.

The noise woke the usher, and soon after the blare of trumpets announced that the court had risen, as some wag said, until the day after yesterday.]