Henry Handel Richardson

Name: Australia Felix — Part II, Chapter II
Author: Henry Handel Richardson

Australia Felix — Part II, Chapter II (1917)

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“Australia Felix — Part II, Chapter II”, published in 1917, is a work by Henry Handel Richardson. It explores elements such as Mahony, Ocock and counsel.

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part II, Chapter II (1917)

“ When after a weary wait the time came to enter court, he continued to give Ocock, who had been deep in consultation with his clerk, a wide berth, and moved forward among a number of other people. A dark, ladder-like stair led to the upper storey. While he was mounting this, some words exchanged in a low tone behind him arrested his attention.
"Are you O.K., old man?"
"We are, if our client doesn't give us away. But he has to be handled like a hot--" Here the sentence snapped, for Mahony, bitten by a sudden doubt, faced sharply round. ”

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part II, Chapter II (1917)

“ Mahony and Johnny dismounted from the coach in the early afternoon, sore, stiff and hungry: they had broken their fast merely on half-a-dozen sandwiches, keeping their seats the while that the young toper might be spared the sight of intoxicating liquors. Now, stopping only to brush off the top layer of dust and snatch a bite of solid food, Mahony hastened away, his witness at heel, to Chancery Lane.
It was a relief to find that Ocock was not greatly put out at Purdy having failed them. "Leave it to us, sir. We'll make that all right." ”

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part II, Chapter II (1917)

“ I can afford to pay a better-class man," was Mahony's caustic note. He had fallen to scribbling on a sheet of paper, and was resigned to sitting through an adept presentment of Ocock's shifts and dodges. But the opening words made him prick up his ears.
"My Lord," said counsel, "I submit there is here no case to go to the jury. No written contract existed between the parties, to bring it within the Statute of Frauds. Therefore, the plaintiff must prove that the defendant accepted these goods. Now I submit to you, on the plaintiff's own admission, that the man Murphy was a common carrier. ”

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part II, Chapter II (1917)

“ What I ask, my pretty, is do you yourself say so?"
"The . . . the defendant recommended him."
"I put it to you, this man Murphy was one of the best known carriers in Melbourne, and THAT was why the defendant recommended him--are you out to deny it?"
"N . . . n . . . no."
"Then you can stand down!" and leaning over to Grindle, who was below him, counsel whispered with a pleased spread of the hand: "There you are! that's our case."
There was a painful moment just before Bolliver left the witness-box. ”

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part II, Chapter II (1917)

“ Every chink and crack had been stopped against the searing wind; and the atmosphere was a brew of all the sour odours, the offensive breaths, given off by the two-score odd people crushed within its walls. ”

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part II, Chapter II (1917)

“ Put thus, it must surely gain over every honest, straight-thinking man. In comparison, the points Ocock was going to advance shrank to mere legal quibbles and hair-splitting evasions.
Then the plaintiff himself went into the witness-box--and Mahony's feelings became involved as well. This his adversary!--this poor old mangy greybeard, who stood blinking a pair of rheumy eyes and weakly smiling. One did not pit oneself against such human flotsam. ”

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part II, Chapter II (1917)

“ By his side sat Johnny Ocock, the elder of the two brothers. Johnny had by chance been within earshot during the negotiations with the rascally carrier, and on learning this, Henry had straightway subpoenaed him. Mahony was none too well pleased: the boy threatened to be a handful. His old father, on delivering him up at the coach-office, had drawn Mahony aside to whisper: "Don't let the young limb out o' yer sight, doc., or get nip or sip o' liquor. If 'e so much as wets 'is tongue, there's no 'olding 'im." Johnny was a lean, pimply-faced youth, with cold, flabby hands. ”

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Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix — Part II, Chapter II (1917)

“ The judge, tired of wiping his spectacles dry, leant back and closed his eyes. Mahony believed he slept, as did also some of the jurors, deaf to the Citation of Dawes V. Peck and Dunlop V. Lambert; to the assertion that the carrier was the agent, the goods were accepted, the property had "passed." This "passing" of the property was evidently a strong point; the plaintiff's name itself was not much oftener on the speaker's lips. "The absconding driver, me Lud, was a personal friend of the defendant's. Mr. Bolliver never knew him ”

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