dBooks desire

At any rate I will bowl her out this
time."
"Perhaps you have read law too?" he said with suppressed sarcasm.
"I have read some," she answered calmly. "I like law, especially Equity
law; it is so subtle, and there is such a mass of it built upon such
a small foundation. It is like an overgrown mushroom, and the top will
fall off one day, however hard the lawyers try to prop it up. Perhaps
you can tell me----"
"No, I'm sure I cannot," he answered. "I'm not a Chancery man. I am
Common law, and _I_ don't take all knowledge for _my_ province. You
positively alarm me, Miss Granger. I wonder that the canoe does not sink
beneath so much learning."
"Do I?" she answered sweetly. "I am glad that I have lived to frighten
somebody. I meant that I like Equity to study; but if I were a
barrister, I would be Common law, because there is so much more life
and struggle about it. Existence is not worth having unless one is
struggling with something and trying to overcome it."
"Dear me, what a reposeful prospect," said Geoffrey, aghast. He had
certainly never met such a woman as this before.


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