The Gilded Age


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volume after volume, whole libraries in fact, until no mortal man could  
say what the rules were. The question of insanity in all its legal  
aspects was of course drawn into the discussion, and its application  
affirmed and denied. The case was felt to turn upon the admission or  
rejection of this evidence. It was a sort of test trial of strength  
between the lawyers. At the end the judge decided to admit the  
testimony, as the judge usually does in such cases, after a sufficient  
waste of time in what are called arguments.  
Mrs. Hawkins was allowed to go on.  
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