'Followed by a second, not less . . . ?'
'In the interpretation of a rigid morality arming you legal gentlemen to make it so!'
'The Law must be vindicated.'
'The law is a clumsy bludgeon.'
'We think it the highest effort of human reason—the practical instrument.'
'You may compare it to a rustic's finger on a fiddlestring, for the murdered notes you get out of the practical instrument.
'I am bound to defend it, clumsy bludgeon or not.'
'You are one of the giants to wield it, and feel humanly, when, by chance, down it comes on the foot an inch off the line.—Here's a peep of Old London; if the habit of old was not to wash windows. I like these old streets!'
'Hum,' Carling hesitated. 'I can remember when the dirt at the windows was appalling.'
'Appealing to the same kind of stuff in the passing youngster's green- scum eye: it was. And there your Law did good work.—You're for Bordeaux. What is your word on Burgundy?'