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Show SUCH A POOR INHERITANCE Tears of a Rival Attorney Were Explained, Ex-plained, Not in Too Friendly a Fashion. At the trial of Home Tooke, Lord Eldon, speaking of his own reputation, said: "It is the little inheritance I have to leave my children, and, by God's help, I will leave it unimpaired." Here he shed tears, and to the astonishment as-tonishment of those present, Mitfbrd, the attorney general, began to weep. "Just look at Mitford," said a bystander by-stander to Home Tooke, "what on earth is he crying for?" Tooke replied: "He is crying to think what a small inheritance Eldon's children are like to get." |