Every action
of his life seemed to rush through his memory with the swiftness
of a torrent. "You ought to have very heavy damages, sir,"
said Mr. Dadmun.
Another of the brightest of the young lawyers when I came
to the Bar was H. He had, however, had rather an unfortunate
introduction to life. His father, who was a very wealthy
and prosperous manufacturer, sent him to Yale College and
supplied him liberally with money, not only for his support,
but for the indulgence of every extravagant taste. Beside
spending what his father allowed him, he incurred a good many
debts, expecting to find no difficulty in their payment. His
father failed in business with a great crash about the end
of his junior year and died suddenly. He kept on, however,
on credit, until he graduated and then came out with a heavy
load of debt, and no resources for studying his profession.
He got thorough, however, by dint of plausible manners. He
was a very honest fellow in other respects, but he got the
habit of incurring debts which he could not pay. Then he
took to drinking hard, and finally went to New York, and died
after a career of dissipation.
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