USHER, CLERK OF THE COURT, MR. HUNGARY, Q.C., _and others_. MR. LA-DI- DA, _the prisoner, not in the dock, but seated in a chair before it_. [_Enter_ MR. JUSTICE NUPKINS. _Mr. Justice Nupkins_. Prisoner at the bar, you have been found guilty by a jury, after a very long and careful consideration of your remarkable and strange case, of a very serious offence; an offence which squeamish moralists are apt to call robbing the widow and orphan; a cant phrase also, with which I hesitate to soil my lips, designates this offence as swindling. You will permit me to remark that the very fact that such nauseous and improper words can be used about the conduct of a _gentleman_ shows how far you have be…
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