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Yet I may be permitted to hint that were your lordship disposed to submit this question , as you are shortly about to do another and a similar one , to those clear-sighted and intelligent gentlemen there , I am satisfied , my lord , it would be Greek to every man of them . ' `` The look , the voice , and the peculiar emphasis with which Peter gave these words , were perfectly successful . The acute judge anticipated the wish of the counsel -- the jury were dismissed , and Peter proceeded to his case before those he knew better how to deal with , and with whom the result was more certain to be as he wished it . '' To this anecdote of the counsellor , succeeded many others , of which , as the whiskey was potent and the hour late , my memory is not over retentive : the party did not break up till near four o'clock ; and even then , our seance only concluded , because some one gravely remarked `` that as we should be all actively engaged on the morrow , early hours were advisable . '' I had not been above a week in my new quarters , when my servant presented me , among my letters one morning , with a packet , which with considerable pains , I at length recognised to be directed to me . The entire envelope was covered with writing in various hands , among which I detected something which bore a faint resemblance to my name ; but the address which followed was perfectly unreadable , not only to me , as it appeared , but also to the `` experts '' of the different post-offices , for it had been followed by sundry directions to try various places beginning with T , which seemed to be the letter commencing the `` great unknown locality : '' thus I read `` try Tralee , '' `` try Tyrone , '' `` try Tanderagee , '' & c. & c. I wonder that they did n't add , `` try Teheran , '' and I suppose they would at last , rather than abandon the pursuit . `` But , Stubber , '' said I , as I conned over the various addresses on this incomprehensible cover , `` are you sure this is for me ? ''