The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney
THE EXPERIENCES OF A BARRISTER, AND Confessions of an Attorney. BY SAMUEL WARREN 1880 CONTENTS. THE MARCH ASSIZE THE NORTHERN CIRCUIT THE CONTESTED MARRIAGE
CHAPTER I: THE EXPERIENCES OF GOODY MADGE
"Dear Madam, think me not to blame;
Invisible the fairy came.
Your precious babe is hence conveyed,
And in its place a changeling laid.
Where are the father's mouth and nose,
The mother's eyes as black as sloes?
See here, a shocking awkward creature,
That speaks a fool in every feature."
GAY.
"He is an ugly ill-favoured boy--just like Riquet a la Houppe."
"That he is! Do you not know that he is a changeling?"
Such were the words of two little girls walking home from a school
for young ladies kept, at the Cathedral city of Winchester, by two
Frenchwomen of quality, refugees from the persecutions preluding the
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and who enlivened the studies of
their pupils with the Contes de Commere L'Oie.
THE EXPERIENCES OF A BARRISTER, AND Confessions of an Attorney. BY SAMUEL WARREN 1880 CONTENTS. THE MARCH ASSIZE THE NORTHERN CIRCUIT THE CONTESTED MARRIAGE