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`` Yes , sir , -- a lawyer ; I understand . '' And as of all ratlike animals in the world Mrs. Saunders had the ignorance to deem a lawyer was the most emphatically devouring , she congratulated herself with her whole heart on the white lies she had told in favour of the intended victims . The black-coated gentleman having thus obeyed his instructions and attained his object , nodded , went his way , and regained the fly which he had left at the turnstile . `` Back to the inn , '' cried he , `` quick : I must be in time for the three o'clock train to London . '' And thus terminated the result of the great barrister 's first instructions to his eminent solicitor to discover a lame man and a little girl . No inquiry , on the whole , could have been more skilfully conducted . Mr. Gotobed sends his head clerk ; the head clerk employs the policeman of the village ; gets upon the right track ; comes to the right house ; and is altogether in the wrong , -- in a manner highly creditable to his researches .