"_Antony_. You grow presumptuous. _Ventidius_. I take the privilege of plain love to speak. _Antony_. Plain love!--Plain arrogance! plain insolence!" On the second floor of a lofty building in ---- street, New Orleans, was situated the office of Anthony Maxwell, Esq., Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Commissioner for Georgia, Alabama, and a dozen other states. His office had not the usual dusty, business-like aspect of such places, but presented more the appearance of a gentleman's drawing-room; and, but for the ponderous cases of books bound in law-sheep, and a table covered with tin boxes and bundles of papers secured with red tape, the visitor would easily have mistaken it for such. The s…
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