On such an afternoon the various solicitors in the cause, some two or three of whom have inherited it from their fathers, who made a fortune by it, ought to be--as are they not?--ranged in a line, in a long matted well (but you might look in vain for truth at the bottom of it) between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters' reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them. 
On such an afternoon the various solicitors in the cause are ranged in a line, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, affidavits, issues, reports, mountains of costly nonsense piled before them. 