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PART V. MUSIC. XXV. The Piano in Chambers XXVI. The Battle of the Organs XXVII. The Thickness in the Throat PART VI. AMATEUR THEATRICALS.
XXVIII. Actors at The Bar XXIX. "The Play's The Thing" XXX. The River and the Strand by Torchlight XXXI. Anti-Prynne XXXII. An Empty Grate PART VII. LEGAL EDUCATION XXXIII. Inns of Court and Inns of Chancery XXXIV. Lawyers and Gentlemen XXXV. Law-French and Law-Latin XXXVI. Student Life in Old Time XXXVII. Readers and Mootmen XXXVIII. Pupils in Chambers PART VIII. MIRTH. XXXIX. Wit of Lawyers XL. Humorous Stories XLI. Wits in 'silk' and Punsters in 'ermine' XLII. Witnesses XLIII. Circuiteers XLIV. Lawyers and Saints PART IX. AT HOME: IN COURT: AND IN SOCIETY. XLV. Lawyers at their Own Tables XLVI. Wine XLVII. Law and Literature

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PART I.

HOUSES AND HOUSEHOLDERS.

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CHAPTER I.

LADIES IN LAW COLLEGES.

A law-student of the present day finds it difficult to realize the brightness and domestic decency which characterized the Inns of Court in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Under existing circumstances, women of character and social position avoid the gardens and terraces of Gray's Inn and the Temple.

Attended by men, or protected by circumstances that guard them from impertinence and scandal, gentlewomen can without discomfort pass and repass the walls of our legal colleges; but in most cases a lady enters them under conditions that announce even to casual passers the object of her visit. In her carriage, during the