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In after years he [Sir Charles Russell] once told me that his habit had always been to prepare his cases chronologically.2 He wanted to know what was missing in the story he had to tell, to be prepared in anticipation for any surprise coming from the other side that might suddenly be brought to fill the vacant gaps in his own narrative. And this simple process of preparation showed itself in his methods as an advocate. His power of presenting his case had something of the charm a story-teller can command. It was always lucid, direct, and consecutive, never halting or confused. Sir William Gilbert once told me that on a certain occasion he was in Court listening to his own counsel opening to the jury the story of his own case. He said he was charmed, by the interest of the narrative as it was gradually developed, and that the only criticism that occurred to him was that the substance of the speech bore no relation to the contention he had come into Court to establish. Such a reproach, I think, could never at any period in his career have been made against the late Lord Russell.
A biographical note on J. Comyns Carr appears at the end of the previous Recollection.
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Carr, J.C. (1994). Some Eminent Victorians: Personal Recollections in the World of Art and Letters. In: Orel, H. (eds) Gilbert and Sullivan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13769-5_19
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