Show A snub for the advocate in former years the edinburgh par clament house was regarded as the ex elusive preserve of the scottish arl st shortly after robert forsyth was called to the bar says a biographer a pretentious young advocate who was acquainted with forsyth s humble origin had the audacity to say who are you that would venture to thrust yourself into the faculty are you not the son of the beadle of big gar I 1 am indeed sarcastically replied forsyth and I 1 have a strong imbres coln that isyou had been the son of a beadle you would have been a beadle too |