The Law and the Lady single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1893... 1893 The Law and the Lady
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English social sketch of a lawyer's wife at the Winchester races who follows the advice of her husband's colleague and approaches an elderly gentleman to lay her winning bet for her. She is confused when later introduced to him as one of the local judges of the assizes. Legal ambition and gambling at the horse races. Humour. Slight tale. (PB)

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  • From St James' Budget.

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