The Anti-Social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole (2007)
The Anti-Social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole
“He has at last decided to apply for silk. Of course Rumpole will never be as distinguished a QC as Daddy – to whom Rumpole’s murder cases seemed very downmarket when compared with his speciality in property rights, contracts and bills of exchange. At least no one had to die to provide my father with work. I think, however, Daddy would have been pleased that I at least had a husband who was entitled to put the letters QC after his name.
I first knew of Rumpole’s decision when Leonard Bullingham,... after we had bid and won a satisfying four Hearts, pulled a crumpled letter from out of his pocket. ‘A letter from your old man,’ Leonard told me. ‘Hardly the most tactful way of asking for a favour, is it?’ He gave me the letter in question for inclusion in these very memoirs, so I am able to quote it in its entirety. It began, as I thought, in a way that hovered between the overly familiar and the downright rude.
My dear Old Bull My wife may have told you, during the course of one of those tedious card games you both appear to enjoy, that I’m thinking of putting on a silk gown and joining those QCs (Queer Customers is what I call them) who loll around the front row in various courtrooms relying on their underpaid ‘juniors’ to do all the hard work.MoreLess
I first knew of Rumpole’s decision when Leonard Bullingham,... after we had bid and won a satisfying four Hearts, pulled a crumpled letter from out of his pocket. ‘A letter from your old man,’ Leonard told me. ‘Hardly the most tactful way of asking for a favour, is it?’ He gave me the letter in question for inclusion in these very memoirs, so I am able to quote it in its entirety. It began, as I thought, in a way that hovered between the overly familiar and the downright rude.
My dear Old Bull My wife may have told you, during the course of one of those tedious card games you both appear to enjoy, that I’m thinking of putting on a silk gown and joining those QCs (Queer Customers is what I call them) who loll around the front row in various courtrooms relying on their underpaid ‘juniors’ to do all the hard work.MoreLess
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