Er habe schon, erzählte er dann, viele ähnliche Prozesse ganz oder teilweise gewonnen. Prozesse, die, wenn auch in Wirklichkeit vielleicht nicht so schwierig wie dieser, äußerlich noch hoffnungsloser waren.
He had already, he would then say, won many such cases, partly or in whole, cases which may not really have been as difficult as this one but which, on the face of it, had even less hope of success.