At the Head of the Profession.—Scene: Prisoners’ waiting room adjoining police-court. (Eminently respectable director awaiting examination.)
Artful Dodger (to Charley Bates). “You’ve been copped for a till—and me for a cly. But ’e’s been copped for a bank—shared somethin’ like six million swag among the lot!”
Charley Bates (in a tone of respectful admiration). “Lor!”
“On there! Pass along!” (Exeunt.) Antony and Cleopatra, Act III., Sc. 1.
We scoff at savages who bow down before strange idols, yet we invariably “worship” the bench.
“It is very odd,” said Serjeant Channell to Thessiger, “that Tindal should have decided against me on that point of law which, to me, seemed as plain as A B C.” “Yes,” replied Thessiger, “but of what use is it that it should have been A B C to you, if the judge was determined to be D E F to it?”