It is night in Lincoln's Inn--perplexed and troublous valley of the shadow of the law, where suitors generally find but little day--and fat candles are snuffed out in offices, and clerks have rattled down the crazy wooden stairs and dispersed. 
It is night in Lincoln's Inn - perplexed and troublous valley of the shadow of the law - and fat candles are snuffed out in offices, and clerks have dispersed. 