On raising her eyes, Phoebe was startled by the change in
Judge Pyncheon's face.
The principal duty of a
judge, is to suppress force and fraud; whereof force is the more pernicious, when it is open, and fraud, when it is close and disguised.
According to the plan of the convention, all
judges who may be appointed by the United States are to hold their offices during good behavior; which is conformable to the most approved of the State constitutions and among the rest, to that of this State.
"Very good, so be it," said the squire; but in the meantime a man had got out of the coach whose dress indicated at a glance the office and post he held, for the long robe with ruffled sleeves that he wore showed that he was, as his servant said, a
Judge of appeal.
I borrowed three dollars from
Judge Thatcher, and pap took it and got drunk, and went a-blowing around and cussing and whooping and carrying on; and he kept it up all over town, with a tin pan, till most midnight; then they jailed him, and next day they had him before court, and jailed him again for a week.
Immediately after,
Judge Obadiah, a fat, round man, followed by the clerk, entered.
"My poor client's fate now depends on you votes." Here the speaker sat down in his place, And directed the
Judge to refer to his notes And briefly to sum up the case.
“I speak plain English, I believe,
Judge Temple: at least I ought; for my father, who taught me, could speak——”
"Do you mean to tell me that this
Judge Witberg will violate the sacredness of his office and oath by letting this brute off?" Watson demanded.
"You see,
Judge, I've heard your campaign speeches.
The
judge had no sooner taken his seat, than the officer on the floor of the court called out 'Silence!' in a commanding tone, upon which another officer in the gallery cried 'Silence!' in an angry manner, whereupon three or four more ushers shouted
Judge Scott pooh-poohed and laughed, but not with reason, for it was in his last days on the bench that Jim Hall had stood before him and received sentence.
He plunged into the swimming tank or went hunting with the
Judge's sons; he escorted Mollie and Alice, the
Judge's daughters, on long twilight or early morning rambles; on wintry nights he lay at the
Judge's feet before the roaring library fire; he carried the
Judge's grandsons on his back, or rolled them in the grass, and guarded their footsteps through wild adventures down to the fountain in the stable yard, and even beyond, where the paddocks were, and the berry patches.
Judge Driscoll had retired from the bench and from all business activities in 1850, and had now been comfortably idle three years.
At last he went to the
judge, and complained that a rascal had robbed him of his money, and beaten him into the bargain; and that the fellow who did it carried a bow at his back and a fiddle hung round his neck.
