_Counsel Generally_ (_to Judge_). Then, my Lord, under the altered circumstances of the case, we can appear no longer before you. (_With deep and touching emotion._) We retire from the case!
_Judge_ (_not very appropriately_). Then if _Box and Cox_ are satisfied, all I can say is that I am. I may add that I consider that the case has been conducted nobly, and that I knew how it would end from the very first. I am thoroughly satisfied.
_Jury_. And so are we, my Lord--never so interested in our lives!
_Newspaper Editor_ (_departing_). Ah, if we only had a trial like this every day, we should require but one line on the Contents Bill! (_Curtain._)
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