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                                 Chapter 1 



                               In Chancery 



          ondon。     Michaelmas       Term     lately   over察  and    the   Lord 

LChancellor                sitting   in  Lincoln¨s     Inn   Hall。   Implacable 

          November weather。 As much mud in the streets察as if the 

waters   had   but   newly   retired   from   the   face   of   the   earth察  and   it 

would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus察forty feet long or 

so察  waddling   like   an   elephantine   lizard   up   Holborn   Hill。   Smoke 

lowering   down   from   chimney´pots察  making   a   soft   black   drizzle察

with flakes of soot in it as big as full´grown snowflakes!gone into 

mourning察     one   might   imagine察    for  the  death   of  the  sun。   Dogs察

indistinguishable       in  mire。   Horses察   scarcely   better察  splashed     to 

their    very    blinkers。    Foot´passengers察      jostling    one   another¨s 

umbrellas察  in   a   general   infection   of   ill´temper察 and   losing   their 

foothold   at  street´corners察  where  tens   of  thousands   of  other  foot´ 

passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke if 

this day ever broke察adding new deposits to the crust upon crust 

of mud察sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement察and 

accumulating at compound interest。 

   Fog everywhere。 Fog up the river察where it flows among green 

aits and meadows察fog down the river察where it rolls defiled among 

the tiers of shipping察and the waterside pollutions of a great and 

dirty city。 Fog on the Essex marshes察fog on the Kentish heights。 

Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier´brigs察fog lying out on the 

yards察and hovering in the rigging of great ships察fog drooping on 

the   gunwales      of  barges   and   small   boats。   Fog   in  the  eyes   and 



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throats     of   ancient     Greenwich       pensioners察     wheezing      by    the 

firesides of their wards察fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon 

pipe of the wrathful   skipper察down   in   his   close   cabin察  fog  cruelly 

pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little ¨prentice boy on 

deck。 Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into 

a nether sky of fog察with fog all round them察as if they were up in a 

balloon察and hanging in the misty clouds。 

    Gas   looming   through   the   fog   in   divers   places   in   the    streets察

much as the sun may察from the spongy fields察be seen to loom by 

husbandman and ploughboy。 Most of the shops lighted two hours 

before their time!as the gas seems to know察for it has a haggard 

and unwilling look。 

    The raw afternoon is rawest察and the dense fog is densest察and 

the    muddy     streets   are   muddiest察    near    that   leaden´headed       old 

obstruction察appropriate  ornament   for   the   threshold   of   a   leaden´ 

headed old corporation此Temple Bar。 And hard by Temple Bar察in 

Lincoln¨s Inn Hall察at the very heart of the fog察sits the Lord High 

Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery。 

    Never can there come fog too thick察never can there come mud 

and   mire   too   deep察  to   assort   with   the   groping   and    floundering 

condition   which   this   High   Court   of   Chancery察  most   pestilent   of 

hoary sinners察holds察this day察in the sight of heaven and earth。 

    On such an afternoon察if ever察the Lord High Chancellor ought 

to   be   sitting   here!as   here   he   is!with   a   foggy   glory   round   his 

head察softly fenced in with crimson cloth and curtains察addressed 

by   a  large   advocate     with   great   whiskers察  a   little  voice察 and   an 

interminable   brief察  and   outwardly   directing   his   contemplation   to 

the lantern in the roof察where he can see nothing but fog。 On such 

an    afternoon察    some     score   of  members       of  the   High    Court     of 



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Chancery Bar ought  to  be!as   here   they  are!mistily  engaged   in 

one  of  the  ten   thousand   stages  of  an   endless   cause察  tripping  one 

another       up    on    slippery     precedents察     groping      knee´deep       in 

technicalities察     running      their   goat´hair     and    horse´hair     warded 

heads   against   walls   of   words察  and   making   a   pretence   of   equity 

with   serious   faces察  as   players   might。   On   such   an   afternoon察  the 

various   solicitors   in   the   cause察  some   two   or   three   of   whom   have 

inherited it from their fathers who made a fortune by it察ought to 

be!as are they not拭ranged in a line察in a long matted well but 

you might look in vain for Truth at the bottom of it察between the 

registrar¨s     red   table   and    the  silk  gowns察    with   bills察 cross´bills察

answers察  rejoinders察  injunctions察  affidavits察        issues察  references     to 

masters察     masters¨    reports察   mountains       of  costly   nonsense察    piled 

before them。 Well may the court be dim察with wasting candles here 

and there察well may the fog hang heavy in it察as if it would never 

get out察well may the stained glass windows lose their colour察and 

admit no light of day into the place察well may the uninitiated from 

the   streets察  who  peep   in   through  the   glass   panes   in   the   door察  be 

deterred   from   entrance   by   its      owlish   aspect察    and   by   the  drawl 

languidly echoing to the roof from the padded dais where the Lord 

High Chancellor looks into the lantern that has no light in it察and 

where   the   attendant  wigs are   all stuck   in a   fog´bank  This is   the 

Court of Chancery察which has its decaying houses and its blighted 

lands     in  every    shire察  which    has   its  worn´out      lunatic   in   every 

madhouse察and its dead in every churchyard察which has its ruined 

suitor察  with   his   slipshod   heels   and   threadbare   dress察  borrowing 

and     begging     through     the   round    of  every    man¨s     acquaintance察

which gives to monied might察the   means   abundantly  of  wearying 

out the right察which so exhausts finances察patience察courage察hope察



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so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart察that there is not an 

honourable man among its practitioners who would not give!who 

does not often give!the warning察 Suffer any wrong  that  can be 

done you察rather than come here 院

    Who   happen   to   be   in   the   Lord   Chancellor¨s   court   this   murky 

afternoon   besides   the   Lord   Chancellor察  the   counsel   in   the   cause察

two or three counsel who are never in any cause察and the well of 

solicitors     before    mentioned拭      There    is  the   registrar    below     the 

Judge察  in   wig   and   gown察  and   there   are   two   or   three   maces察  or 

petty´bags察or privy purses察or whatever they may be察in legal court 

suits。 These are all yawning察for no crumb of amusement ever falls 

from   JARNDYCE   AND   JARNDYCE   the   cause   in   hand   which 

was   squeezed  dry  years   upon   years   ago。   The   short´hand   writers察

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