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The "Personal Reminiscences" of the late Mr. Justice Ganthony, now in process of being edited, are responsible for the following drollery: -
My first "chambers" were on the top, not to say the attic, floor of a house in (the now defunct) Furnival's Inn. I called _it_ "chambers," in the plural, on the strength of a coal-cellar, in the window-seat, and a turn-up bedstead which became a cupboard by day. That accounted for two rooms, and "the usual offices," as the house-agents say, when they refer to a kitchen six feet by eight in the basement. Trousers, after all, are only one garment, although they are called a pair.