#lawyer larkin

[j-august]

Mr. Larkin has great malice, but greater prudence. No one likes better to give the man who has disappointed him a knock, the condition being that he disturbs no interest of his own by so doing. Where there is a proper consideration, no man is more forgiving. Where interest and revenge point the same way, he hits very hard indeed.

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, The Tenants of Malory

[j-august]

I think it was Lawyer Larkin's private canon, in his dealings with men, that everything was moral that was not contrary to an Act of Parliament.

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, Wylder’s Hand