should. Your 

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 to answer the question is a sufficient proof to me that 
you do Tiot think that any action can succeed." 

" AVhy, I don't know that." 

" As a lawyer, you must know that no law can touch me !*' 

^^ Well, even assuming it to be so, of course you are aware that you 
are in a position to be seriously annoyed." 

^' Now you speak ! I am quite aware of that, and am anxious to 
avoid it. I wordnetdesire to take no advantage of your client ; on the contrary, 
I am willing to give him the sum I proposed, provided he will give me 
an undertaking that he will let the unhappy affair drop for ever. If 
you can induce him to do this, you and I may come to terms ; if not, 
why he must take his own course, and the matter as between you and 
me will be at an end." 

^^ I will undertake at once to induce him to do this." 

" You of course have the power?" 

" Beyond all dispute." 

'^ Very well. As his legal adviser you ou^At to possess the power to 
do it ; and in the event of its being done, what